In case you weren’t aware, the MOH Instagram account posts Coronavirus updates daily. What I especially appreciate about the MOH is the fact they breakdown the new cases with details on how the people contracted the virus. They’re being transparent which I like and I’m also pretty sure the lockdown is making it easier for them to track down all the people who were in contact with the positive case.
If you want to see these daily updates then follow them on Instagram @kuwait_moh. For more local official Coronavirus news sources, click here.
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Mark, you can check live through this link https://corona.e.gov.kw/
I know, but the MOH account mentions how people contracted the virus, the corona page doesn’t.
Also the corona page doesn`t track historically the number of quarantined people. It will be interesting to see the relation between arriving flights and the number of people getting quarantined.
they update twitter faster
https://twitter.com/KUWAIT_MOH
The daily live conference also sometimes additional information, like yesterday they mentioned which areas some of the cases appeared.
Because of community spread, Mahboula is now being closely monitored. It took me 25 mins to exit Mahboula onto HWY30 today because there was a long checkpoint where two cops took my temperature using an infrared thermometer. When I reached Mangaf there was no checkpoints. Scary stuff.
@ Porter:
I agree. The only relevant data point for MOH to capture on its website is to inform the public whether or not new infections are travel related or community acquired. Bas that’s all that should matter for the public’s consumption.
You need to live in Kuwait to realize just how central they have måde nationality in the conduct of normal day to day living that MOH is, I am guessing acting on reflex.
you know i was thinking about this, and it could be to help defuse the rift between kuwaitis and expats? Imagine if they didn’t mention the nationalities, Kuwaitis would most likely assume all the cases were expats. Could you imagine how things would be then?
Is there any way to find out which stores at the Avenues are open these days? I know that Carrefour is and I think a lot wouldn’t be, but Google says otherwise.
Avenues is closed and so are all the stores there. Only supermarkets are open.
I think expats should leave Kuwait if they can, especially those with loved ones abroad.
The last flight option to Canada, only getting you as far as Montreal, was 300kd one way. In Canadian dollars, 1400$… not many can afford that. I also read that India is not going to show the planned repatriation flights from Kuwait to India… so it isn’t very easy to “leave Kuwait”
I only wish they would drop the nationality of those affected to avoid discrimination against any one nationality or ethnicity.
Kuwait (and many other GCC countries) are quite unique in the fact that nationals form a minority of the population. Hence, nationality is important to trace clusters of this particular disease.
Nationality may have some role to play in tracing clusters of Covid-19 cases in Kuwait since expat families and ‘ajnabi bachelors,’ are permanently quarantined in their respective ghettos from Kuwaiti families. However, the live in house helps (including maids, cooks and drivers) that number approx 350,000 are deeply entrenched and integrated Into the domestic Kuwaiti wallpaper that a nationality wise segregation of cases proves increasingly futile in a contemporary Kuwaiti context.
All that matters then is community acquired infection versus travel related illness.