Kuwait Lockdown Again: Govt Impose Strict Restriction from January 9

Kuwait Lockdown Again corona cases rise in country, The Kuwaiti Cabinet agreed on Monday to impose a seven-week ban on indoor social gatherings from January 9, the Center for Government Communication said. Starts fear for Kuwait Lockdown Again Govt impose strict restriction from January 9.

Corona and omicron cases sudden rise “The Council of Ministers has determined to place a temporary ban on all types of social gatherings held in indoor venues from Sunday the 9th of January, 2022 and until Monday the 28th of February, 2022,” the statement read.

All travellers coming to Kuwait will have to present a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to the arrival, effective Tuesday. The Gulf state urged its citizens to leave the United Kingdom after the Omicron coronavirus variant unleashed a wave of infections in Europe. Kuwait reported its first Omicron case in a European traveller on December 8.

More than 85 per cent of Kuwait’s population, or 3.2 million people, received two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry’s latest figures show. The Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson and Johnson vaccines are among the approved inoculations in the country.

In recent days, Kuwait’s embassies in the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ukraine and France have issued warnings for citizens to leave these countries and return home amid fears of a surge in the new Omicron strain of the virus and further travel restrictions.

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Kuwait is also facing a bout of unstable weather that has prompted the government to warn people to remain indoors. The Kuwait Meteorological Department said visibility would improve today but heavy winds and low temperatures are expected to continue. Kuwait‘s Ministry of Health said that the number of daily reported Covid-19 cases has ”doubled” over the past 10 days.