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UAE reports lowest daily Covid-19 cases this year

Total active cases for December 3 stand at 17,761

Published: Sat 3 Dec 2022, 3:10 PM

Updated: Sat 3 Dec 2022, 4:00 PM

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The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Saturday reported 101 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 215 recoveries and no deaths.

Though the daily tally in the country has dipped below the 150-mark over the past few days, this is the lowest number that has been recorded so far this year, based on the daily charts of the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority.

With the continuous drop in Covid cases in the country, most have already been going about their day without having to wear face masks. Many screening centres have already been shut.

Earlier this week, the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) announced the permanent closure of its 19 Covid centres.

Over 197.2 million PCR tests have been conducted in the country so far. And total active cases stand at 17,761.

The new cases were detected through 24,019 daily tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on December 3 are 1,044,704, while total recoveries stand at 1,024,595. The death toll now stands at 2,348.

Though the UAE is moving closer to eliminating Covid, the scenario is different in other parts of the world. In China, for example, another wave of infections has sent cities into disarray.

Lapses in strategies to tackle Covid-19 this year continue to create "the perfect conditions" for a deadly new variant to emerge, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.

With the peak of the pandemic behind, countries worldwide are starting to loosen the reins on surveillance, testing, and vaccination for the disease which has claimed more than 6 million lives so far.

About 90 per cent of the world's population now has some level of immunity to Sars-CoV-2 either due to prior infection or vaccination, according to the global health agency's estimates.

"We are much closer to being able to say that the emergency phase of the pandemic is over, but we're not there yet," Tedros told reporters during a press conference.

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