It took about an hour for firefighters to extract some of the bodies from the burning bus, said an official
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention on Sunday reported 225 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, along with 253 recoveries and no deaths.
Total active cases stand at 13,698.
The new cases were detected through 195,790 additional tests.
The total number of cases in UAE as on May 8 are 900,251, while total recoveries stand at 884,251. The death toll now stands at 2,302.
Over 157 million PCR tests have been conducted in the country so far.
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