UAE reports 15% increase in coronavirus recoveries

UAE reports 15% increase in coronavirus recoveries

The number of people who have recovered from coronavirus in the UAE in the past week has increased by 15 percent, from the previous seven days, according to government figures revealed on Tuesday.

At the weekly media briefing, Dr. Omar Al Hammadi, official spokesperson of the UAE Government, said that, between October 7 and 13, 9,451 patients had recovered from Covid-19, while the death rate in the country dropped by 45 percent (13 cases) compared to the previous week.

The UAE's Covid-19-related death rate currently stands at 0.4 percent and is among the lowest in the world, compared to 4.4 percent in the EU, 2.4 percent in the MENA region and 3.7 percent in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Al Hammadi announced that, during the most recent period, 793,642 coronavirus