KUWAIT: Kuwait is set to take delivery of as many as 400,000 instruments for coronavirus detection tomorrow, said a senior health official. "The devices will be brought to the country on Wednesday and they will be distributed on Thursday.

They will be in use as of next Sunday," Assistant Undersecretary of the Health Ministry for Medicine and Medical Preparations Dr Abdullah Al-Bader explained.

Once delivered, Kuwait will be the first country in the region to use these coronavirus detection instruments, which can help in determining check findings, be they positive or negative, in just five or ten minutes, Bader added. - KUNA