The UAE reported 994 cases on Friday following more than 300,000 tests.
Four people died and 1,570 recovered.
The latest tallies mean that 714,396 cases have been reported since the pandemic began.
Some 698,989 people have recovered from Covid-19, while 2,035 have died.
The number of new cases has remained low in the past few weeks, even against high testing.
Friday was expected to be one of the biggest days of screening to date as tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pupils are tested before returning to classrooms on Sunday.
Mass testing across Abu Dhabi ahead of new school term - in pictures
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Perla Mansour, 4, takes a saliva test before the start of the new school term. All photos: Victor Besa / The National -
Mohammed Al Suwaidi gets a swab test in Abu Dhabi as part of the new back-to-school rules. -
Many parents have taken their children to Biogenix Labs in Masdar City to take PCR or saliva tests. -
The Mansour family from Egypt attended a clinic in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday to get their oldest child tested for Covid-19 before returning to school next week. -
Health workers keep the mood cheery for young pupils getting tested. -
Special queues have been sectioned off at clinics across Abu Dhabi for school pupils who need to get tested. -
Khalifa Al Nahdi, 4, queues for a test. -
Pupils will need to show a negative nasal PCR or saliva test result taken within 96 hours before they can return to in-person classes next week. -
Health workers hold up some of the many samples taken from school pupils. -
A young Abu Dhabi resident gives a saliva sample. -
Mohammed Al Bisher, 6, takes a saliva test. -
More than a million pupils will return to school in the UAE after the summer break. -
Bumper-to-bumper traffic outside Biogenix Labs in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. -
Parents take their children to Biogenix Labs in Masdar City to take PCR tests.
