- The last 10 thousand took 4 days to reach comparing with 79 days for the first 10 thousand
- Last hundred thousand cases recorded after 21 days comparing to 212 days for the first hundred thousand
- Ministry of Health still withholding data for 91% of cases and deaths
- Kuwait is 75 worldwide in number of cases comparing to population
Kuwait: 13 February 2022
Kuwait announced today 2,268 new Covid19 positive cases, 5,147 recovery and 1 death case, for a total 601,307 cases, 560,497 recovery and 2,520 deaths, recovery rate is 93.2% and deaths 0.41%.
Kuwait reached today 600 thousand Covid19 positive cases after 721 days since announcing the first Covid19 positive case in Kuwait by a Kuwaiti citizen came back from Iran on 24 February 2020, While the 100 thousand case recorded on 22 September 2020 after 212 days, and the 200 thousand case recorded on 7 March 2021 after 167 days from the first hundred thousand, the 300 thousand case recorded on 24 May 2021 after 79 days from the second hundred thousand, the 400 thousand case recorded on 03 August 2021 after 71 days from the third hundred thousand, the 500 thousand case recorded on 24 January 2022 after 176 days from the forth hundred thousand, and the 600 thousand case recorded on 13 February 2022 after 21 days from the fifth hundred thousand.
Kuwait today in 75 place worldwide in number of cases announced comparing to the population (It was 152 after recording 500 thousand cases) and ranked 72 worldwide after recording more than 600 thousand cases (It was 149 after recording 500 thousand cases).
Since 16 July 2020, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health started withholding data regarding the new Covid19 positive cases in Kuwait regarding their nationalities and living areas, and that approach continues what the ministry started to do since 4 May 2020 when it’s declined to mention any data related to some of Covid19 positive new cases, whether in terms of the type of infection if it was in contact or under epidemiological investigation of unknown source as well as the nationalities, in addition to its withhold to provide data of deaths which were previously provided such as nationality, age, gender, and time spent in the intensive care, and continued on 17 June 2020 by withholding data regarding the non-Kuwaitis nationalities new cases.
Social Watcher team had previously alerted the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health’s decision to withhold information regarding the size of the virus outbreak and its daily growth rate for the public and those interested, in light of the rising numbers specially after the Omicron spread, and the team renews the alert today after recording 601,307 cases, 548,206 of them 91.1% and 2,480 deaths 98.4% out of 2,520 without any data.
Social Watcher team indicates that the Kuwaiti Ministry continuation in this approach will increase the total number of unknown cases, and at some point, it passed more than 90% of the cases, which will affect the credibility of the ministry and the transparency of its handling of this matter. (you can see the rate of increasing number of cases on this link).