COVID-19: Kuwait Reports 3 New Recoveries

Kuwait Ministry of Health has announced on Sunday the recovery of three patients from coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.

The recovered patients include a Kuwaiti female and male citizens, as well as a Spanish resident.

This brings the total number of fully recovered cases in UAE to 30.

It is worth mentioning that, Kuwait will start imposing a curfew nationwide today Sunday from 5 pm until 4 am to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

The Kuwaiti cabinet also decided to extend a suspension of government and private agencies for two weeks.

Kuwait has recorded 176 cases of coronavirus so far.

Several Arab countries have tightened restrictions on movement and travel, with the aim of curbing the spread of the Coronavirus, and some have pledged billions of dollars in economic stimulus programs to reduce the economic repercussions of the crisis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in SouthKorea, Italy, and Iran.

Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.