Saudi Arabia on Saturday recorded over 50,000 cases of the pandermic coronavirus (COVID-19), according to the Kingdom’s Ministry of Healt
A ministry official reported 2,840 new cases, taking the cumulative total to 51,980, thus up from an average of around 1,500 new cases a day over the past week.
The official also disclosed that the death toll in the kingdom, arising from the disease had increased from 10 to 302.
Saudi Arabia recorded its first COVID-19 infection on March 2, several weeks after the initial outbreak in Asia.
Meanwhile, Nigeria has also registered 5,621cases, 1,472 discharged and 176 deaths, as at Sunday.
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