Having effortlessly transitioned into acting, Fouzia's debut film swiftly captured global acclaim, earning accolades at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival
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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A person who travelled from South Africa to New Zealand has been confirmed as having the strain.
The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in the United States has found.
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The World Health Organisation’s long-awaited estimate of the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic — including lives lost to its knock-on effects — finally puts a number on the broader impact of the crisis.
Having effortlessly transitioned into acting, Fouzia's debut film swiftly captured global acclaim, earning accolades at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival
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