The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced Saturday 1,008 new infections of the coronavirus (Covid-19), raising the total to 26,192.

Deaths reached 205 with the addition to 11 fatalities.

Official spokesperson of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, said in a statement to Kuwait news agency KUNA that all these patients had contracted the germ from infected persons and others suspected of being contaminated with the pathogen.

Meanwhile, the health authorities conducted 3,661 swab tests, in past 24 hours, raising whole count of such tests to 290,013, Dr. Al-Sanad said. (QNA)


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