The UAE recorded 2,022 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. These cases brought the country’s overall tally to 487,697. Another 1,731 people beat the virus, taking total recoveries to 471,906. Four more died from complications caused by Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 1,537. Active cases stand at 14,254. More than one year since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, the UAE is cautiously returning to normal. Cases have been hovering around 2,000 a day this month – down from close to 4,000 in January. Mass testing and one of the world's fastest vaccination campaigns have seen the UAE emerge from the crisis quicker than most. Authorities on Tuesday said 118,805 vaccine doses were given in the UAE over the past 24 hours, to reach 9.15 million doses in total. This represents a rate of 92.58 doses per 100 people. Meanwhile, Europe <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/pandemic-hits-critical-point-as-europe-deaths-top-one-million-1.1202461">passed the grim milestone</a> of one million coronavirus deaths on Monday, with cases rising in several other parts of the globe. "We are in a critical point of the pandemic right now," said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on Covid-19. "The trajectory of this pandemic is growing, exponentially. This is not the situation we want to be in 16 months into a pandemic when we have proven control measures." Coronavirus has already killed more than three million people, according to a Reuters tally, and infected almost 137 million around the world.
