Dubai: Saudi Arabia today recorded 822 new coronavirus infections as the daily toll continues to decline, according to the Ministry of Health.
This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the kingdom to 319,141 and the virus-related fatalities to 4,015 after another 33 patients succumbed to the deadly virus.
Jeddah and Mecca reported the highest daily detected cases today with 48 new infections each, followed by Dammam with 45, Riyadh with 41 and Medina with 40. The rest of the new cases were in different cities and governorates across the kingdom.
According to the ministry, a total of 1,099 COVID-19 patients, have made full recovery, pushing the total number of recoveries in the kingdom to 295,063 and the recovery rate to 92.54 percent.
The active cases also continued to drop drastically with 20,063 cases are still under treatment in the country, out of which 1,484 are critical.
