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These standards do not apply to health professionals, Kuwaiti nationals under the age of 18 and diplomats.
Sheikh Sabah, 91, had ruled the Gulf Arab oil producer and U.S. ally since 2006 and steered its foreign policy for more than 50 years.
Currently, the total population of Kuwait is 43 lakh. Of this, 13 lakh are natives and 30 lakh are expats.
While the virus claimed three lives in the Gulf region, one life was lost in Mumbai.
Vijayakumar, a native of Sanathanapuram, died in Oman, while Sibi Abraham succumbed to the virus in Kuwait.
The nurses had left for Kuwait in a special Kuwait Airways flight after their annual vacation in Kerala.
District health authorities said the woman had returned to India after recovering from the viral infection, but before a repeat test prescribed after 14 days.
The airlift of Indians from the Gulf following the outbreak of the pandemic, COVID-19 is history repeating itself except that in 1990, the villain was President Saddam Hussein.
With this, over 120 Keralites have succumbed to coronavirus abroad.
Kuwait has offered to repatriate Indians at their own expense. The development, triggered by the coronavirus outbreak and the oil plunge, comes just as the Indian government was working on a mega plan to deplot a raft of naval ships as well as military and commercial aircraft to evacuate its