Coronavirus: Kuwait to move to a 12-hour curfew from Sunday

Dubai - The move is part of a range of measures to ease coronavirus-related restrictions.

Kuwait will impose a 12-hour partial curfew from 6pm to 6am from Sunday as part of a five-phase plan to gradually return to normal life, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) has announced.
The move is part of a range of measures to ease coronavirus-related restrictions. These include mosques reopening from Sunday in compliance with heath guidelines and preventive measures.
"We have approved a plan to gradually return to normal life, as we cannot continue with the complete lockdown. Returning to normal life and living with the pandemic is a must," Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al Hamad Al Sabah said in a press conference following a meeting of the Kuwaiti government on Thursday evening.
Dr Basel Al Sabah, Minister of Health, said the proposals will be implemented across five phases, each of which spans three weeks, leading smoothly to the gradual restoration of normal life.
However, Al Farwaniya, Khaitan, Holi, Jleeb Al Shuyoukh and Mahboula will remain under lockdown, where intensified security patrols will station in these areas, the minister said.
Earlier on Thursday, Kuwait reported 845 new cases of the novel coronavirus, raising the country's infection tally to 24,112, KUNA reported.
The Health Ministry also announced 10 more deaths from Covid-19, bringing the total such fatalities in the country to 185.
All the new cases were in contact with previously infected people or are being investigated for sources of infection, the Health Ministry's spokesman Dr Abdullah Al Sanad said in a media update.
He said that 81 people have left institutional quarantine centres and will have to spend at least 14 days in home isolation.
Health Minister Al Sabah earlier Thursday said that 752 more patients have recovered from the disease, bringing to 8,698 the total of such recoveries in the country.

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