publish time

08/01/2022

author name Arab Times

publish time

08/01/2022

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 8: Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) registered Saturday 2,820 additional COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour span, increasing the total number of infections to 430,920, while two fatalities were recorded, raising the death toll to 2,471. There were 313 fresh recovery cases, increasing the total to 413,309 cured people so far, as recoveries represent 96 percent of the overall infections, MoH's Spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA. Active cases amounted to 15,140 with 12 of them in intensive care units, and 87 patients at hospital wards, he said. Health authorities conducted 30,862 swab tests to a total of 6,166,679, which meant that 9.1 percent of swab tests performed in 24 hours were infections, he revealed