Coronavirus: UAE reports 300 Covid-19 cases, 286 recoveries, 0 deaths

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Monday reported 300 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 286 recoveries and 0 deaths.

Total active cases stand at 18,768.

The new cases were detected through 130,156 additional tests.

The total number of cases in UAE as on October 18 are 1,033,458, while total recoveries stand at 1,012,343. The death toll now stands at 2,347.

Joyous scenes unfolded at Abu Dhabi’s LLH Hospital as colleagues of Arunkumar M. Nair welcomed him back to work after a gap of more than 15 months.

It was in July last year that the frontline warrior got infected with Covid-19 and suffered damage to his lungs, cardiac arrests, failure to breathe and was in a semi-conscious state for six months. The operation theatre technician at Burjeel Holdings staged a miraculous recovery, and Nair was discharged in January. However, it took him nine more months to be fully fit, and return to duty after a battle of nearly 450 days against Covid-19 and the recovery phase.

Since July last year, Nair was on prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support and survived multiple cardiac arrests. After his discharge in January, he had hoped to get back to work soon, but was faced with a long road to recovery ahead of him. He was staying in a flat near the hospital, which the company provided to help him access medical support whenever required.

Meanwhile, nasal vaccines could still be a powerful future weapon in the fight against Covid-19, despite "disappointing" recent trial results for an AstraZeneca spray, experts say.

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