KUWAIT: Expatriates returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon wait to be tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Mishref yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Esam Al-Naham, accompanied with Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic and Operations Affairs Maj Gen Hatem Al-Sayegh, visited the expatriates' testing site for coronavirus at Kuwait International Fairgrounds in Mishref yesterday. He was welcomed by Hawally Security Director General Brig Khaled Al-Kandari and other officers.



Lt Gen Naham conveyed greetings of Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Anas Al-Saleh to police officers at the site. He was then briefed on the process during which expatriates who returned to Kuwait recently are organized to enter the halls, wait for their turn before they are tested, and how efforts are taken to prevent crowding and keeping distances between those seeking to be tested. The health ministry's medical team also briefed Lt Gen Naham on the precautionary and preventive measures taken at the site.