UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

Coronavirus: UAE reports 243 Covid-19 cases, 602 recoveries, no deaths

Total active cases stand at 18,599

By Web Desk Published: Thu 7 Apr 2022, 6:32 PM Last updated: Thu 7 Apr 2022, 6:39 PM

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Thursday reported 243 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 602 recoveries and no deaths.

Total active cases stand at 18,599.

The new cases were detected through 264,300 additional tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on April 7 are 893,172, while total recoveries stand at 872,271. The death toll now stands at 2,302.

The evidence doesn’t suggest the presence of Covid XE mutant in India, government sources said on Wednesday and denied media reports that claimed the first case of the variant had been detected in the country.

The government sources said that FastQ files of the sample, being said to be XE’variant, was analysed by INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) which inferred that the genomic constitution of this variant doesn’t correlate with the genomic picture of ‘XE’.

“Present evidence does not suggest that it is XE variant of Covid-19,” a source said.

The Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation had earlier in the day said that “one patient is affected by Kappa variant and another by