KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday listed 204 new coronavirus infections recorded over the past 24 hours, raising the total to 149,653.

KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah yesterday hailed the high turnout of medical personnel and frontline workers at the coronavirus vaccination center after the vaccination campaign kicked off yesterday.

CHRISTS HOSPITAL, UK: David Exwood’s glossy, chestnut-brown Sussex cattle are brought in during the winter months and, apart from the bellowing that comes from their barns, his 1,000 hectare farm is quiet. But while the inaction on his farm, near Horsham, southeast England, is typical of many in the colder months, it belies tensions across British agriculture as the sector braces for the New Year. 

KUWAIT: Various economic indices showed that Kuwait is in the safe zone with regards to repercussions of the new coronavirus on the economic sector, amid recurrent bonds’ issuance by the Central Bank of Kuwait in the year 2020.

LONDON: Britain is set for a new chapter Friday after securing a hard-fought post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union as EU envoys gave the accord, reached only after months of tortuous negotiations, a sober welcome. “There was no great joy because a divorce is not really good news,” one EU diplomat told AFP. 

KUWAIT: Health Ministry personnel completed preparations at the Kuwait International Fairground in Mishref yesterday to start the first stage of vaccination against COVID-19 today, targeting health workers at the frontlines and who are exposed to the virus. Director of Public Health Department Dr Fahad Al-Qimlas was present and met with health workers who are covered by the first stage of the vaccination.

WASHINGTON: A flurry of new data Wednesday provided more evidence the US economy is faltering as COVID-19 cases have spiked. Consumer confidence fell as incomes and spending declined, and new home sales slumped, according to government and private data.

BRUSSELS: Brussels and London were still battling over fish yesterday, delaying the planned announcement of a trade deal to cushion the economic blow of the UK’s imminent EU departure. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait reported 244 new coronavirus infections yesterday to take total cases to 149,017, while two virus-related deaths in the past 24 hours made the death toll rise to 926, the health ministry said.