Saudi Arabia has confirmed 2,509 new coronavirus cases after conducting 16,140 new tests over the past 24 hours, raising the total to 59,854 cases.
While disclosing this on Tuesday May 19, 2020, the health ministry said 2,886 new recoveries were recorded taking the total to 31,634.
“More than 50 percent of those who became infected in Saudi Arabia have recovered, said ministry spokesman, Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdel Ali.
He also announced nine new fatalities, raising the Kingdom’s relatively low death toll to 329.
“The health sector’s coronavirus treatment protocol, extensive testing and active screenings have helped the Kingdom maintain its relatively low death rate of less than 0.6 percent,” Health Minister Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah said earlier this month.
Out of the newly detected cases, 26 percent are female and 74 percent are male.
The spokesman also said 35 percent of the new cases are Saudi nationals while 65 percent are of other nationalities.
