KUWAIT: The Minister of Well being Dr Khaled Al-Saeed addressed the day gone by the Civil Provider Fee (CSC) to approve the request of providing monetary allowances to all scientific personnel who handled coronavirus (COVID-19) sufferers and different contagious illnesses. The minister indicated in a press liberate that this discovered the CSC resolution 13/2020 of providing monetary bonuses for staff running in hazardous, noisy, inflamed, polluted running environments.

All discussed classes are at all times at risk of hazardous scenarios, and infections, which ended in infecting maximum of them because of their direct and oblique with COVID-19 sufferers, he affirmed. The ministry isn’t knowledgeable but with the CSC reaction on that subject, requiring the fee to tell the ministry of its resolution on that subject so as to permit the Ministry to observe up with the specified procedures, he affirmed.

The Well being Ministry had introduced the day gone by 1,329 COVID-19 infections, 3,492 recoveries and one demise. Well being Ministry spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad indicated that this introduced the tallies of infections and recoveries to 614,344 and 595,156 respectively. The overall of deaths stood at 2,530. He indicated that there have been 80 sufferers in ICU because of COVID-19, whilst there have been 16,658 lively circumstances. Some 316 have been occupying beds in COVID-19 wards as of the day gone by, he added. Swabs, in the similar duration, reached 20,376 striking the overall at 7,489,049, he added. – KUNA