Muscat corniche
The Muscat corniche aglow in the night. The newly diagnosed cases are 52 Omanis and 60 foreigners, the Health Ministry said without giving a breakdown of foreign patients’ nationalities. Image Credit: Supplied

Cairo: Oman's Health Ministry Saturday recorded 112 further cases of the new coronavirus, bringing to 3,224 the country's overall infections.

The newly diagnosed cases are 52 Omanis and 60 foreigners, the Health Ministry said without giving a breakdown of foreign patients’ nationalities.

The ministry also said that a 80-year-old Omani woman died of COVID-18, bringing to 17 the total such fatalities in the country.

The overall number of recoveries in Oman has reached 1,068, according to an update from the ministry.