Dubai: Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health confirmed today another 957 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of infections in the country up to 11,244, and active cases to 10,168, the Qatari News Agency (QNA) reported.
The ministry also announced the recovery of 54 COVID-19 patients , bringing the total number of recovered cases to 1,066. So far, 10 people hae died from the coronavirus in Qatar.
The ministry revealed that it had conducted 3,420 tests in last 24 hours, taking the total tests done so far to 85,709 tests.
Most of the new cases registered were expatriate workers working in different occupations who had come into contact with those with COVID-19. The ministry has also recorded new cases among groups of workers from outside the industrial area who were identified through accelerated testing.
The remainder of cases have come from citizens and residents who have contracted the virus from members of their families, who in turn had contracted the virus in their workplaces or other places where they had exposed to infected people.
The ministry stated that the noticeable increase in the number of confirmed new cases of coronavirus is due to several reasons, including that the spread of the virus has begun to enter the peak stage, where numbers are expected to continue to rise before they begin to gradually decline.
