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News Summary Report Sun, May 02, 2021

External Affairs

Kuwait Embassy in Thailand Denies Closing Due to Coronavirus Case Kuwait Embassy in Thailand denied news spread on media on closing the embassy because one of its diplomats was infected with the coronavirus.

In a statement on Saturday, the embassy affirmed that it is still open during its normal working hours.

It added that it will continue providing services to Kuwaiti citizens in Thailand and will answer their inquiries after working hours and during holidays on emergency line number +6691 18909998.

KUNA

Enhancing Security and Stability to Achieve Progress and Prosperity in the Region: Kuwait and Iran

Kuwait Foreign Minister, and State Minister for the Cabinet Affairs, Sheikh Dr.

Ahmad Al-Nasser discussed on Thursday evening with Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Mohammad Jawad Zharif, who formally visited Kuwait, bilateral relations between the two countries and means of their enhancement in all fields.

Foreign Ministry statement reported that the meeting elaborated on regional and international developments and means of enhancing security and stability in the region to achieve aspirations of all in peace, progress and prosperity.

Al-Rai

“We Welcome Kuwait’s Role in Establishing Peace in Yemen”: US Envoy to Al-Rai

The US ambassador to Kuwait Alina Romanowski stressed the US welcoming attitude of Kuwait’s role as a peace supporter in Yemen, remarking that the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and State Minister for the Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Dr.

Ahmad Al-Nasser received on the 1st of March the special envoy Linderking during his official visit to Kuwait, and he reiterated Kuwait’s keenness to exert all its best efforts to assist and support the Yemeni people to reach a political solution that could return security and stability to Yemen.

Further, Romanowski said that the US President Joe Biden made ending war in Yemen a top priority, and therefore, he appointed Tim Linderking as a special envoy to work on this priority specifically.

She added that the USA will work persistently with the UN and other partners, including Kuwait to enhance diplomatic efforts to end war in Yemen and to recall any party setting obstacles ahead of that objective. Al-Rai

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Domestic Affairs

Kuwait Reports Six COVID-19 Deaths, 1,279 Infections

Kuwait’s Ministry of Health on Saturday reported six new COVID-19 deaths, and 1,279 infections in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry’s spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad told KUNA that the death toll increased to 1,569, and the caseload to 275,270 since the Pandemic outbreak.

Al-Sanad added that the total recoveries have reached 258,599 after 1,338 patients recovered from coronavirus today making the recovery rate 93,94%

out of the conducted tests.

Moreover, 15,102 patients in total 24 hours 8,194 tests were conducted, with infection rate 15,61 %, making the total conducted tests 2,334,897, he added.

Al-Sanad renewed his call on the public to maintain social distancing, and to abide with all health regulations that would help in stopping the virus spread.

KUNA

Scarcity of Vaccines Leads to Extension of Doses Period

Postponement May Reach 6 Weeks for Pfizer – and 4 Months for Oxford

Full curfew is excluded --- Partial Curfew will be lifted based on the pandemic condition: Al-Jarallah

The Ministry of Health plans to extend the period between the two doses of the vaccine approved in the State of Kuwait. Many countries have also adopted similar procedures as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, France and Denmark have extended the period between the two doses of Pfizer vaccine to reach 6 weeks, and to 12 weeks in the UK.

Head of The Supreme Advisory Panel for COVID-19, Dr. Khaled Al-Jarallah pointed out to the importance of standardizing the periods of the vaccine doses in order to optimize the pace of reaching herd immunity. He stressed that the full curfew is excluded, and that the partial curfew will be lifted based on the Pandemic condition.

While citizens are waiting determination of a time for the second dose of Oxford vaccine, which has been used in Kuwait at the beginning of last February, Al-Jarallah said that those who received the first dose of Oxford vaccine will receive a message of the second dose as was scheduled.

Further, he said that there is scarcity in supplying the vaccine worldwide, and that the country is actively working to secure the efficient vaccines for all, including categories that may be included in the future (who are below 16 years old.

Al-Rai

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Two million vaccination target set for End-June

With the acceleration of the coronavirus vaccination campaign in the country, the number of vaccinated individuals is expected to increase to two million by the end of June or early July at the latest, reports Al-Rai daily quoting reliable sources.

While affirming that the country will continue monitoring the vaccination rate daily, sources revealed the Pfizer vaccine shipments arrive weekly and the third shipment of Oxford vaccine is expected to arrive next month. Sources also confirmed the completion of a study on extending the interval between the first and second doses according to the latest research and global recommendations in this regard. The specified interval in Kuwait is 21 days for Pfizer vaccine and three months for Oxford vaccine. The interval is not fixed or the same in all countries, sources explained.

In a related development, sources said the Ministry of Health has obtained approval for booster vaccine requests from the regulatory authorities, including the request for two million doses of Pfizer vaccine, while the request for Moderna vaccine is still under study. The Al-Qabas daily has confirmed what it had published on April 18, 2021, that the Kuwait Airways is booking travel to London, starting from next May 5. Earlier, the Al-Qabas had learned that the Corona Emergency Committee in the Council of Ministers had discussed a recent proposal regarding the Kuwait Airways operating the Kuwait-London-Kuwait route.

High-ranking government sources told the daily the route will soon be operational, with two daily trips. The sources pointed that Kuwait Airways is awaiting the response of the Ministry of Health, and that there is a government tendency to approve the operation of flights, provided that the indicators of the health situation in London are evaluated, and that the epidemic will not spread in the country if the airline becomes operational. The Ministry of Health is racing against time to raise the rates of vaccination in ministries, government institutions and various commercial markets.

To this end, the Ministry of Health has vaccinated about 1,500 media men and employees of local Kuwaiti newspapers recently, while it is currently continuing its efforts to vaccinate workers in various government departments to raise the employee attendance rates. Well-informed health sources confirmed to Al-Seyassah daily that the efforts of the Ministry of Health this week paid dividends in terms of vaccinating a large number of people – about 100,000 during the past five days, with an average of 20,000 daily, distributed among all vaccination centers, hospital units and centers in health areas, albeit the biggest share is attributed to the main vaccination center in Mishref which has vaccinated more than 70 percent of all the vaccinated people. Health sources said Kuwait has succeeded in vaccinating about 1,165,000 people so

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far, at 27.25 percent of the population, which is an acceptable rate in light of the shortage of vaccines, which is a problem that many countries around the world suffer from. For his part, the Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Vaccination against Covid 19 Dr. Khaled Al-Jarallah, spoke of the ministry’s efforts to raise the rate of immunization in government departments.

Al-Jarallah said on his Twitter account that the national vaccination campaign aims to speed up work to raise the employees’ attendance in government departments to achieve community immunity, stressing that effective vaccines, dosing stages, distribution of vaccination sites and stability of supply will increase the frequency of vaccination and the stages of returning to normal life.

Al-Jarallah warned that laxity in adhering to preventive precautions prolongs the duration of the crisis and its repercussions.

Curb He highlighted the importance of immunization in preventing the spread of infection, as it is the way to return to openness and curb epidemic waves, noting that a recent study conducted by the British Public Health confirmed that receiving only one dose of the Pfizer or Oxford vaccine works to reduce contact infection by nearly half. He pointed out that the results of these studies, in addition to previous indications of the effectiveness of vaccination in reducing the rate of disease injuries, clinical work and deaths, all confirm the importance of vaccination and community immunization against Covid-19. A member of the Supreme Committee for Vaccination, Dr. Khaled Al-Saeed said the country’s infrastructure can vaccinate a million people within one month only, provided that adequate vaccines are available, stressing that the Ministry of Health has the privileges and medical and technical competencies that can cross the mark if vaccines are available. Al-Saeed pointed out in his Twitter account that the Ministry of Health has contracted millions of doses to reach the required societal immunity, but the supply is limited at present, and this may explain the inability of private medical institutions to supply vaccines so far due to the difficulty of providing them worldwide.

He pointed out that many countries were affected by the lack of supplies of vaccines, and the European Union even filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca due to the delay in supplying the vaccine. Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mustafa Reda, has restored the work of the specialized medical committees in public hospitals and specialized centers. Dr. Rida was circulated to the directors of health districts, hospitals, the administration of treatment abroad and heads of medical departments to return these committees according to the controls established in their regard and specified in Ministerial Resolution No. 169 of 2019 regarding the regulation of treatment abroad, based on the Ministry’s keenness to regulate the workflow. The Ministry of Health is considering the possibility of administering the COVID-19 vaccine to pregnant women in the coming weeks, reports Aljarida daily quoting informed sources

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from the health sector. They explained that this move comes in the wake of medical studies and research that have proven the safety of the vaccine for pregnant and lactating women. A study was conducted on about 36,000 pregnant women in the United States who received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, No problems related to health safety were observed.

Arab Times

Economy Kuwaiti Oil Price Up 23 Cents to $ 66.14 pb

The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by 23 cents to $ 66.14 per barrel Friday as opposed to $ 65.91 pb the day before, said the Kuwaiti Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Saturday.

The prices of the Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate, globally, went down with the first going down by $ 1.31 to $ 67.25 per barrel, while the latter went down by $ 1.43 to $ 63.58 pb.

38% Drop in Japan’s Oil Imports from Kuwait During March

Government data in Japan showed that imports from Kuwait crude oil dropped by % 37.9 last March in comparison to the same period of the last year to reach 5,61 million barrel, which is equivalent to 181 thousand barrels a day to register a drop for the 12th consecutive month.

Kuwait came in the fourth rank of biggest exporters to Japan as its exports to Japan reached 7.7% of the total Japan’s imports of crude oil. The total imports of crude oil by Japan dropped by 25% on annual basis to 2,34 million barrels/ a day.

Shipments from the Middle East represented 90.5% of the total imports with a drop of 3.2% in comparison to the same period last year.

KSA maintained its top rank as top exporter of crude oil for Japan despite drop of exports from the KSA by 4.3% from the previous year to reach 1,04 million barrels a day, however, the UAE came in the second rank with shipments that reached 594thousand barrels a day with a drop that reached 50.8%, followed by Qatar in the third rank with shipments reaching 246 thousand barrels/day.

Russia came in the fifth position with shipments that reached 129 thousand barrels a day.

Japan, which is poor in resources, is considered as the third biggest consumer of oil in the world after China and the USA.

Al-Seyassa

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