The Ministry of Public Health announced, on Saturday, that 3,100 new Coronavirus infections were recorded during the past 24 hours, raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 372,775.
Additionally, it indicated that 42 deaths were registered during the past 24 hours.
“3,079 confirmed cases were recorded among residents and 21 cases among expatriates,” noting that “42 new deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 4,652”, the Ministry explained.
“The number of hospitalizations yesterday was 2,167 including 912 in intensive care, and the number of laboratory tests taken yesterday was 21,465 of which 2,356 were taken at the airport”, the Ministry concluded.