Kuwait’s health ministry on Sunday said 607 more people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the country’s caseload to 619,310.
Some 1,788 more people recovered from the virus to up the number of those to have overcome the disease to 60,6657, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, adding that the recovery to positive case ratio stands at 98 percent. One fatality linked to the virus upped the country’s death toll from the pandemic to 2,537, while 212 people are hospitalized with the virus, 62 of whom need intensive care, health ministry data showed.
Some 22,447 swab tests were conducted over the last day, out of a total of 7,626,573 so far, added the spokesman.
Source: Kuwait News Agency