KUWAIT: Around 96.1 percent of COVID-19 deaths registered between June 1 and June 26 in Kuwait have been for unvaccinated people, Health Ministry Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health yesterday reported 1,652 new infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, raising the total cases to 353,133. 

WASHINGTON: One year after it took effect in the midst of a record economic downturn, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has yet to end trading friction between the North American allies. 

PARIS: Nearly 140 countries will haggle over key details of a global corporate tax plan this week, with some concerned about giving up too much and others eager to ensure tech giants pay their fair share. 

LONDON: Odile Renaud-Basso, the first female president at Europe’s development bank, hopes to restore the EBRD’s green investment targets while addressing workplace equality as COVID-hit economies recover.

KUWAIT: Kuwait began yesterday enforcing a Cabinet decision limiting entrance to malls, restaurants, cafes, gyms, salons, parks, museums and cultural facilities to people vaccinated against COVID-19. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality teams were yesterday inspecting shops, malls, coffee shops and gyms in different governorates to make sure only people who received COVID-19 vaccines were allowed to enter, or the facility would be fined with KD 5,000. The inspections were in compliance with a government decision to only allow vaccinated persons to enter these facilities starting yesterday.

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is under pressure from a major business group and diplomats to scrap a travel ban on Europeans, as investment from the continent in the United States plunged by nearly a third last year. 

WELLINGTON: New Zealand announced a three-day suspension of its quarantine-free travel arrangement with Australia yesterday, with Wellington citing “multiple” outbreaks of COVID-19 in the neighboring country.