Health minister says clots dropped during COVID-19

Kuwait times
Sep 15, 2023

Health minister says clots dropped during COVID-19


KUWAIT: Health Minister Ahmad Al-Awadhi said on Thursday that the number of recorded clots in Kuwait has dropped significantly after the vaccination drive against the COVID-19 pandemic. In a reply to a question by MP Muhalhal Al-Mudhaf, the minister said that as many as 12,475 clots were recorded in Kuwait in 2021 compared to 15,000 strokes in 2019, the year before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that required a world-wide vaccination drive.