GCC Covid-19 update: UAE records 189 cases; 1,342 infections registered in Saudi

UAE
The Ministry of Health and Prevention confirmed 189 additional Covid-19 cases, detected as a result of 29,398 tests conducted to screen for the virus.

The total infection count across the country has now risen to 61,352.

The new cases identified are undergoing treatment.

However, no deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, making it the four consecutive day on which no Covid-19-related demises were registered.

The number of recoveries – with 227 additional patients having overcome the virus – has now reached 55,090.

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— وزارة الصحة ووقاية المجتمع الإماراتية – MOHAP UAE (@mohapuae) August 4, 2020

Saudi Arabia
The Ministry of Health has reported 1,342 additional infections and 1,635 recoveries in the past 24 hours.

The infection count has risen to 281,435, while the number of recoveries tally 243,688.

An additional 35 people have succumbed to the virus, raising the death toll to 2,984.

Kuwait
The number of Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours has risen by 475 to reach 68,774, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

Four additional deaths were recorded, scaling the death toll to 465.

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— Kuwait News Agency – English Feed (@kuna_en) August 4, 2020