Coronavirus: UAE reports 375 new cases after more than 52,000 tests

Country records another 512 recoveries

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. 07 JULY 2020. COVID - 19 Measures in place at the Ramada by Wyndham Downtown Dubai. Hand sanitizers are provided on the communal public floors where guests access the facilities. (Photo: Antonie Robertson/The National) Journalist: None. Section: National.

Hand sanitisers set up across the facilities at the Ramada by Wyndham Downtown Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National

The National

Jul 15, 2020

The UAE reported 375 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday after conducting more than 52,000 tests.

The new infections raised the country's total to 55,573 from more than 4.16 million tests.

Authorities said 512 more patients recovered from the virus, making it 46,025 people to have been given the all-clear.

One more person died, taking the death toll to 335.

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan applauds during a conference in Istanbul, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Turkish lawmakers were making their final speeches Tuesday before voting on a bill that would give the government greater powers to regulate social media, in what human rights groups and the opposition have decried as a violation of free expression online. Hundreds of social media users have already been investigated and some arrested for their posts on the COVID-19 pandemic, opposition to Turkish military offensives in Syria or insulting Erdogan and other officials. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

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On Monday, Abdulrahman Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, said the UAE was working on developing two types of vaccines against Covid-19.

Mr Al Owais said the vaccines were at the human trial stage and were being tested with more than 15,000 volunteers.

“We are in the third stage of the study and clinical trials, and all conditions and requirements for the safety of volunteer participants will be fulfilled,” Mr Al Owais said in a TV briefing.

If either vaccine is found to be safe and effective, it will be moved to the manufacturing phase.