Kuwait announces the discovery of the first infection with the new strain of Corona virus

Kuwait – (Reuters):
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health announced, on Tuesday, that it had discovered the first infection with the mutated strain of Corona virus in the country, for two citizens coming from Britain.

The Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad as saying that the results of the PCR tests for citizens from the country of take off “were sound,” but that the PCR examination conducted at Kuwait Airport upon arrival through the teams of the Ministry of Health “proved that they were infected.” Virus. ”

Al-Sanad added: “The health isolation measures were applied according to the approved protocols, and upon conducting the genetic planning examination, they were confirmed to be infected with the recent genetic mutation of the virus, and in light of the results of the examination, precautionary and preventive health measures and all epidemiological investigation measures were taken.”