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Kuwait City, 15th January 2021: Recruitment fees for domestic workers to increase by 50 % 60 % of domestic workers are from the Philippines Given the challenges that recruitment offices face, it is likely that the recruitment cost for domestic workers will increase by 50 per cent, Al Rai reported. In the past the recruitment fee, which includes travel and administrative transactions, was set at 990 Kuwaiti dinars by the Ministry of Commerce, but now due to several factors recruitment agencies are asking that the price be raised to around 1,400 to 1,500 Kuwaiti dinars. One of the reasons they want the cost to go up is because recruitment offices in the host countries have added new costs to their services, which affects the overall cost of the recruitment process. Another factor is that now all domestic workers entering Kuwait need to conduct several PCR tests and must be quarantined in a hotel or accommodation, all of which are extra costs. In addition, ticket pr…

Kuwait City, 15th January 2021: Kuwait sees a decline in cases, iiQ8, COVID-19 cases decline Intensive Care Unit occupancy drops to between 8 and 10% The spokesman of Kuwait’s Ministry of Health, Abdullah Al Sanad, revealed on Wednesday that Kuwait has become one of the countries that is witnessing a decline in COVID-19 cases. While Kuwait has seen stability in containing the spread of the virus, Al Sanad called on citizens and residents to continue to adhere to the health measures put in place. In the past week, the per cent of confirmed COVID-19 cases to swabs conducted, averaged around 4.6 per cent, a steep decline from the past few months where the average was sitting at 10 to 12 per cent. In addition, on Wednesday Kuwait did not report any COVID-19 deaths. Al Sanad pointed out that the occupancy in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has dropped to between 8 to 10 per cent. The previous Wednesday there were 56 serious cases, compared to this Wednesday Kuwait…