Coronavirus: officials report 617 new cases and 714 recoveries

Authorities say two people died in the past 24 hours from complications

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  Billboards along Sheikh Zayed Road thanking the Covid vaccine volunteers for the Phase 3 trials conducted in the UAE. Antonie Robertson / The National

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  A man receives a dose of a vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Dubai. Reuters

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  People queue for the vaccine near DIFC in Dubai. AFP

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  The DPI screening centre on the border between Dubai and Abu Dhabi is quick and results are out in a matter of minutes. Antonie Robertson / The National

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  A woman receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Zabeel Health Centre in Dubai. EPA

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  Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara partnered with Tamouh Health Care to provide on-site Sinopharm Vaccination for all residents of the UAE free of charge in February. Pawan Singh / The National

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  UAE residents receive their vaccine free of charge in February. Pawan Singh / The National

The UAE reported 617 new coronavirus cases and 714 recoveries on Tuesday.

Officials said two people died in the past 24 hours from complications.

The country has recorded 730,135 cases, 721,367 recoveries and 2,066 deaths since the first Covid-19 case was detected in the Emirates on January 29 last year.

Widespread testing and tracing, stringent safety measures and a high vaccination rate have been credited for bringing down the rate of daily infections.

New cases have dropped since reaching close to 4,000 a day in January and have recently stayed consistently under 1'000.

An additional 351,718 tests were conducted over the 24-hour period, bringing the total number to 79,002,965 carried out since the beginning of the outbreak.

So far, 19,073,549 vaccine doses have been administered, bringing the population close to being 80 per cent fully vaccinated.