Preprint Brief Report Version 2 Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Handling Challenges in Kuwait

Version 1 : Received: 12 May 2020 / Approved: 26 May 2020 / Online: 5 June 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 12 May 2020 / Approved: 26 May 2020 / Online: 14 July 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)

A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.

Gasana, J.; Shehab, M. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Handling Challenges in Kuwait. Sci 2020, 2, 63. Gasana, J.; Shehab, M. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Handling Challenges in Kuwait. Sci 2020, 2, 63.

Abstract

The world is currently facing a serious pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which started in Wuhan, China, and was then transmitted rapidly to other countries. Countries applied different methods and procedures in an attempt to prevent or reduce and/or control the incidence of cases and manage existing ones. This paper discusses the methods and procedures applied by Kuwait to control this epidemic, and how effective they have been. The State of Kuwait followed WHO, European CDC, US CDC, and/or other countries’ institutional guidelines, and is still working on containing the disease, given the rising number of cases among Kuwaitis returning from affected areas such as the UK and USA, and migrant workers who bear the highest burden, given their cramped living conditions.

Keywords

coronavirus; COVID-19; 2019-nCoV; novel (new) coronavirus; pandemic control

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Health Policy and Services

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