Medical workers are seen in a COVID-19 quarantine hospital in Cairo, Egypt, on June 15, 2020. Egypt reported on Monday its highest single-day COVID-19 deaths with 97 fatalities, taking the death toll in the North African country to 1,672, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. According to the ministry's spokesman Khaled Megahed, 1,691 new COVID-19 infections have also been registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed cases to 46,289. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
Medical workers are seen in a COVID-19 quarantine hospital in Cairo, Egypt, on June 15, 2020. Egypt reported on Monday its highest single-day COVID-19 deaths with 97 fatalities, taking the death toll in the North African country to 1,672, said the Egyptian Health Ministry. According to the ministry's spokesman Khaled Megahed, 1,691 new COVID-19 infections have also been registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed cases to 46,289. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

Kuwait will open a new drive-through PCR testing station to expand the COVID-19 testing capacity of the Arab country, the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said Thursday.

The new PCR testing station will be launched on Sept. 20 in Sabhan Area, KUNA quoted Fahad Al-Qemlas, Director of Public Health in the Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH), as saying.

The station will conduct swab tests and is part of the MoH’s efforts to conduct as many tests as possible to contribute to curbing the spread of the coronavirus, Fahad Al-Qemlas said, adding that people wishing to conduct swab tests could make an appointment through the ministry’s website.

The new facility, in full compliance with health and safety measures, could test up to 1,000 people per day at its initial phase, he noted.

It is the third drive-through testing station following the ones at Jazeera Airways Park & Fly facility at the Kuwait International Airport and Jaber Al-Ahmad Stadium, he added.

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