COVID-19 Updates

Kuwait City, 12th January 2022:  

الطيران المدني : يسمح للقادمين المصابين بفايروس كورونا بدخول البلاد بعد قضائهم فترة العدوى اعتبارا من 2022/1/12:

1. المحصن : يكون لديه نتيجة فحص PCR ايجابية مابين 7 الى 28 يوم قبل تاريخ الوصول .

2. غير المحصن : يكون لديه نتيجة فحص PCR ايجابية مابين 10 الى 28 يوم قبل تاريخ الوصول.

Civil Aviation: Arrivals infected with the Corona virus are allowed to enter the country after spending the infection period, as of 01/12/2022: 1. Immune Passengers: He must have a positive PCR test result between 7 to 28 days before the date of arrival. 2. Non-Immune Passengers: Should have a positive PCR test result between 10 to 28 days before the date of arrival. 4397 New Cases & 1 Death on 11th January 2022, COVID-19 in Kuwait, iiQ8 today Corona Report (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Online renew…

Kuwait City, 11th January 2022: Ministry of Health, Kuwait updates COVID-19 quarantine protocols, iiQ8 info Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH) updated its COVID-19 guidelines within the framework of global update of the protocol for the period of isolation, due to take effect on Tuesday (11th January 2022). MoH spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a press release that the quarantine period for the people who came into contact with a person who tested positive would be 14 days, with the possibility for vaccinated people to end the quarantine if their PCR test showed negative in the 7th day of quarantine.   He added that the non-vaccinated people who were in contact with an infected person must quarantine for 14 days from the date of contact.   He indicated that the period for an infected person was reduced to seven days for the vaccinated and 10 days for the non-vaccinated from the date of the first PCR, stressing the need to continue to…

Kuwait City, 6th January 2022: Free Medical Tele-Consultations Panel from Embassy of India Kuwait, iiQ8 COVID info

Embassy of India - Kuwait

PRESS RELEASE

FR EE MEDICAL TELE-CONSU LTATIONS PANEL

Embassy of India is pleased to announce that in view of the emerging Covid-19 situation due to new variant of Omicron, the following Indian doctors from the Indian Doctors Forum (IDF) Kuwait have expressed their willingness to provide free of cost voluntary tele-consultations offering medical advice and counselling support to Indian nationals in Kuwait. All associations and groups are advised to widely circulate the list to help our nationals in need. General instructions, doctors list indicating their specialties, contact details, consultation timings, languages spoken etc. are given the table below. Members of the Indian community in Kuwait who desire to utilize t…

Kuwait City, 2nd January, 2022: PCR Test cost reduced to 9 KD, Booster Dose Recipients Doubles, iiQ8 info Recipients of booster dose doubles; cost of PCR test reduced to 9 dinars In the face of rising Corona infection cases, the Ministry of Health continues to redouble efforts to enhance community immunity, by immunizing a big number of the third (reinforcement) dose of the anti-virus vaccine. In this context, informed sources revealed to “Al-Rai” that “there has big a big jump in the number of recipients of this dose, and the percentage has doubled from 7 to about 13.5 percent within about 10 days.” The sources explained “the number of recipients of the third dose was 237,000 on December 19, and it jumped to 437,000 on December 30,” noting that the proportion of those who received this dose compared to the number of recipients of the second dose was 7% (237,000 out of about 3.2 million). Yesterday, it reached 13.5 percent (437 thousand out of about 3.22 million)…