Sunday, August 15, 2021
Delta Variant is present in Kingdom, Transmission rate of infected person reached 7 people
The official spokesperson of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Muhammad Al-AbdAl-Aali, confirmed that the epidemiological curve in the Kingdom continues to its positive trends, explaining that the Kingdom has gone through important stages in the Corona pandemic and has avoided the repeat of waves of previous variants of the virus.
During the Press conference of Corona developments in the Kingdom, Al-Abd Al-Aali invited on everyone to continue to follow precautions and take vaccine to prevent the Corona virus.
- Dr. Al-Aali highlighted that being satisfied with one dose of the vaccine is not enough to address the delta variant and two doses must be taken for the safety of all. Trending : Insurance policy covers the costs of Follow-up of Pregnancy and Childbirth
- He confirmed that 60% of the new cases infected with Corona virus in the Kingdom are female. Delta mutant is present in the Kingdom and Ministry is closely following up all mutants through genetic sequencing. The rate of transmission of the mutant reached 6 to 7 people from one infected person.
- Delta mutation is currently common worldwide, some countries have reached 100% of new infections, delta is one of the most severe mutation of the emerging Covid-19.
- Today, Saudi Arabia announced 542 new Corona infections, 1,041 new recoveries and 13 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total corona cases in the Kingdom to 538,525 of which 523,050 recovered with 8,412 deaths. Recommend : Expatriates in Saudi Arabia can now own one property
- Saudi Arabia's active corona cases further drops to 7,063 of which 1,356 are critical and are in intensive cares.
- The Kingdom has administered more than 31.8 million (31,820,839) doses of Corona vaccine all over the Kingdom through its 587 vaccination centers, of which first doses are 20.7 million and second doses are 11.05 million, and the elderly people received 1.54 million doses. Follow Saudi Expatriates on Twitter
