UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

Coronavirus: UAE reports 369 Covid-19 cases, 1,225 recoveries, no deaths

Total active cases stand at 34,022

By Web Desk Published: Thu 10 Mar 2022, 1:55 PM Last updated: Thu 10 Mar 2022, 2:10 PM

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Thursday reported 369 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 1,225 recoveries and no deaths.

Total active cases stand at 34,022.

The new cases were detected through 372,764 additional tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on March 10 are 884,354, while total recoveries stand at 848,030. The death toll now stands at 2,302.

Hybrid versions of the coronavirus that combine genes from the Delta and Omicron variants - dubbed "Deltacron" - have been identified in at least 17 patients in the United States and Europe, researchers said.

Because there have been so few confirmed cases, it is too soon to know whether Deltacron infections will be very transmissible or cause severe disease, said Philippe Colson of IHU Mediterranee Infection in Marseille, France, lead author of a report posted on Tuesday on medRxiv ahead of peer review. His team described three patients in France infected with a version of SARS-CoV-2 that combines the spike protein from an Omicron variant with the "body" of a