Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) registered on Monday 6,063 additional COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour span, increasing the total number of infections to 545,717, while one fatality was recorded, raising the death toll to 2,497.

There were 5,129 fresh recovery cases, increasing the total to 491,502 cured people so far, as recoveries represent 90.1 percent of the overall infections, MoH’s Spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA.

Active cases amounted to 51,718 with 91 of them in intensive care units, and 480 patients at hospital wards, he said.

Health authorities conducted 29,304 swab tests to a total of 6,913,124, which meant that 20.7 percent of swab tests performed in 24 hours were infections, he revealed.

Source: Kuwait News Agency