No link between anesthesia and taking vaccines, says Saudi health official

No link between anesthesia and taking vaccines, says Saudi health official

He also called on the public to get information from official sources and to not follow rumors. Saudi Arabia on Thursday reported 15 more COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the overall toll to 7,408. There were 1,261 new cases, bringing the total number of people in the country who have contracted the disease to 454,217. A total of 9,925 cases remain active, 1,516 of which are in critical condition. Of the newly recorded cases, 402 were in Makkah, 292 in Riyadh, 166 in the Eastern Province and 120 in Madinah. The ministry said 1,364 patients had recovered from the disease, bringing the total number of recoveries in the Kingdom to 436,884. Saudi Arabia has so far conducted 19,496,450 polymerase chain reaction tests, with 96,230 carried out in the past 24 hours. Testing hubs and treatment centers set up throughout the country have helped hundreds of thousands of people since the pandemic outbreak. Among them are the Taakad centers, which provide COVID-19 testing for those who show no or only mild symptoms or believe they have come into contact with an infected individual, and the Tetamman clinics, which offer treatment and advice to those with virus symptoms such as fever, loss of taste