UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

UAE reports today’s Covid-19 cases, recoveries

Coronavirus: UAE reports 362 Covid-19 cases, 378 recoveries, no deaths

Total active cases stand at 13,867

By Web Desk Published: Fri 20 May 2022, 1:55 PM Last updated: Fri 20 May 2022, 2:01 PM

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Friday reported 362 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 378 recoveries and no deaths.

Total active cases stand at 13,867.

The new cases were detected through 258,009 additional tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on May 20 are 904,093, while total recoveries stand at 887,924. The death toll now stands at 2,302.

North Korea said on Friday it was achieving “good results” in its fight against its first confirmed Covid-19 outbreak, as the number of people with fever symptoms rose past 2 million.

A wave of Covid infections, which North Korea first confirmed last week, has fanned worry about a lack of medical resources and vaccines in the isolated country heavily sanctioned for its nuclear weapons programme.

North Korea reported 263,370 more people with fever symptoms, and two more deaths, taking its total fever caseload since late April to 2.24 million as of Thursday evening, including 65 deaths, according to its KCNA state news agency.

Elsewhere, in the US, health advisers to the government