Nine Patients Recovered from Coronavirus in Kuwait

Kuwaiti Health Ministry has announced on Tuesday the recovery of nine patients from Coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.

This brings the total number of fully recovered cases in Kuwait to 39.

On Monday, Kuwait’s civil aviation authorities announced that they will allow Egypt’s national carrier to temporarily operate flights to transport foreign residents in the Gulf country to Cairo.

A daily flight will take place starting from Wednesday until March 30, Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) added, according to Al-Rai newspaper.

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 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 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.