The Ministry of Health in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday said that the number of people, who detected with coronavirus in the country, rose to 198, up from 153 cases the day before.
In a statement, the ministry said it registered new 45 cases during the last 24 hours.
It is considered the highest number of cases, recorded in the Arab country since the spread of the virus.
The ministry added that two new cases recovered, bringing the total number of recovered cases to 41.
Only two people had been died from the virus since the spread of the COVID-19 in the Arab country.
On March 16, authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) suspended on Monday all masses prayers in the mosques and the other worship places as a precautionary measure against coronavirus ( COVID- 19).
The National Emergency of Crisis and Disasters Management Authority and the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf halted all masses prayers for four weeks. The decision will come into effect from today.
According to the Emirates News Agency “WAM,” the decision came as a part of the precautionary and preventive measures taken by the UAE to combat the virus, which claimed thousands of lives worldwide.
On Wednesday, March 11, WHO declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.
According to the organisation, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.
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