KUWAIT - Kuwait's Ministry of Health has confirmed recording 1,127 new coronavirus infections and eight coronavirus related deaths in the past 24 hours, reported state agency (KUNA).

The ministry's spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al Sanad said that the new figures takes the total cases to 256,987, and deaths to 1,448, respectively.

He added that some 1,438 more people have recovered from the virus over the past day, taking the total number of recoveries to 240, 465.

© Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2021.