KUWAIT CITY, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait reported Tuesday four new coronavirus cases registered over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 69.

At a daily press briefing of Kuwait's Ministry of Health (MoH), the ministry's spokesman Abdullah Al-Sanad said that three of the four cases are Kuwaiti citizens, one of them returned from Iran and the other two returned from Egypt, the fourth is an Egyptian.

Among all the patients, four persons were admitted into the intensive care unit, three stable and one in critical condition, he said.

Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society (KRCS) launched Tuesday a campaign on coronavirus in cooperation with the MoH to spread awareness among volunteers in airport terminals, complexes and universities on how to deal directly with infected cases.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah expressed in early March their admiration for the achievements China has made in combating the spread of COVID-19.

Kuwait is willing to strengthen its cooperation with China and learn from China's experience to jointly tackle the challenges, he added. Enditem

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