Kuwait Ministry of Health announced on Friday 83 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were recorded over the past 24 hours bringing total number of people contaminted with the virus to 993.
The ministry official spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement that the new cases included two Kuwaiti citizens who came back home on a repatriation flight from the United Kingdom and 77 cases had mingled with persons of confirmed contamination with the contagious virus.
The group of patients who were close to infected persons included a single female citizen, 51 Indian expatriates, eight Pakistanis, seven from Bangladesh, five Nepalese, three Egyptians, a Syrian and a Filipina.