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Kuwait Reports 11 New Coronavirus Cases


Mon 30 Mar 2020 | 01:40 PM
NaDa Mustafa

Kuwait has reported 11 new coronavirus cases, during the last 24-hour, bring the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 266, according to health ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad.

In addition, 194 virus patients are still receiving necessary treatment, while 13 others are in intensive care units; including three in a critical condition, according to the spokesman.

Dr. Al-Sanad has called on citizens and residents to follow the guidelines and instructions of Kuwaiti health authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO), including, maintaining social distancing and home quarantine in order to curb the widespread of the virus.

Earlier in the day, Kuwaiti Minister of Health Dr. Basel Al-Sabah announced the recovery of five new cases from the novel coronavirus, raising the country's total recoveries to 72.

It is worth mentioning that, 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 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 South Korea, Italy, and Iran.

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