Kuwait announces the postponement of the Gulf Games due to the Corona virus
The Kuwaiti Olympic Committee decided to postpone the third Gulf Games scheduled for Kuwait in December 2020 to be held in March 2021, due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus. And the Secretary General of the Kuwaiti Olympic Committee, Hussein Al-Musallam, sent a letter to the Head of the Human and Environment Affairs Sector in the Cooperation Council for the Gulf States, Adel Khalifa Al-Zayani, under the title "Postponing the date of the third Gulf Games." The exceptional circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic. "
The Kuwaiti Olympic Committee decided to postpone the date of holding the third Gulf Sports Games to become during the period from 7 to 17 March instead of the previous date. The date of the opening is set to become on March 7, 2021, at 19:30, Kuwait local time. Kuwait, like the countries of the world, suffered from the "Corona" pandemic on a large scale, and the number of people infected with the epidemic reached more than 78 thousand, with 507 deaths recorded.