UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

Coronavirus: UAE reports 790 Covid-19 cases, 2,064 recoveries, 1 death

Total active cases stand at 55,599.

By Web Desk Published: Sat 19 Feb 2022, 1:56 PM Last updated: Sat 19 Feb 2022, 2:00 PM

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Saturday reported 790 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 2,064 recoveries and one death.

Over 133.4 million PCR tests have been conducted in the country so far.

Total active cases stand at 55,599.

The new cases were detected through 388,495 additional tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on February 19 are 873,882, while total recoveries stand at 815,990. The death toll now stands at 2,293.

Realising the limited food options available for school support staff in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19, two Sri Lankan bus supervisors took the initiative to prepare meals for their infected colleagues.

Ranjanie Rupasinghe and Lalitha Fernando, bus supervisors at GEMS International School – Al Khail, cooked homemade food and arranged direct delivery to 16 colleagues who were in quarantine amid the surge of Covid-19 cases and staff who were close contacts.

"We know that it is not easy to be locked up in a room during the pandemic, and we feel what they go through during this period,”