Saudi Arabia records 792 new Covid-19 cases

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday reported 792 new cases of COVID-19, raising the total to 394,169.

There are 6,686 active cases, 846 of which are critical.

The Riyadh region reported the highest number of new infections with 363, the Makkah region reported 154, and the Eastern Province reported 112 cases.

Tuesday’s lowest figures came from the Northern Borders regions with 11 cases followed by Baha, which recorded eight new



cases.

The Kingdom’s number of COVID-19 recoveries rose to 380,772, while the death toll rose to 6,711 following a further seven coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours.

There have been 62,432 PCR tests in the past 24 hours, increasing the total carried out so far to more than 15.4 million.

As of Tuesday, more than 5.2 million COVID-19 vaccines had been administered at a rate of 127,115 a day.