KUWAIT -- Kuwait Ministry of Defense completed and handed over Hall V in the International Fairs Ground to the Ministry of Health to be used as quarantine.
KUWAIT -- Kuwait Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Waleed Al-Jassem announced the biggest sanitization campaign in the Capital Governorate in the framework of the efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
KUWAIT -- Deputy Board Chairman of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Hashem Hashem said workers in oil sector exert praiseworthy efforts around the clock to ensure supplies to market despite challenges posed by novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
KUWAIT -- Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) praised Saudi Arabia's "professionalism" in the joint operations zone in Al-Wafra and Al-Khafji, which paved way for exporting the first crude oil shipment amidst spread of coronavirus.
GENEVA -- World Health Organization's Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Kuwait was the largest contributor to WHO's coronavirus combat operations.
BRUSSELS -- The European Union expressed "strong support" to the appeal by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for an immediate global ceasefire in light of the global coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON -- The Covid-19 pandemic in the US is going to "get worse, much worse, before it gets better," director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned. (end) mb