KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait listed 534 new coronavirus infections and no virus-related deaths on Saturday taking the total cases up to 160,901 as deaths remain unchanged at 952 respectively, the health ministry said.

The number of people hospitalised with the virus currently stands at 6,203, with 50 of them in intensive care units, according to ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, who revealed that some 8,978 swab tests were conducted over the last day out of a total of 1,455,481.

The ministry had earlier reported that some 439 more people had been cured of the virus over the past day, raising the total of those to have overcome the disease to 153,746.

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