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Saudi Arabia reports 1,048 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths in 24 hours

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File photo of the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP)
File photo of the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP)

Saudi Arabia reports 1,048 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths in 24 hours

Marco Ferrari, Al Arabiya English

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Saudi Arabia has reported 1,048 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths in 24 hours, according to the Kingdom’s Ministry of Health.

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A total of 6,968 people have now died from causes related to the coronavirus in Saudi Arabia.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 418,411 people have tested positive for COVID-19.

Authorities in the country arrested 27 people in the city of Medina for not flouting isolation rules after testing positive for COVID-19, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

More than eight million people have now been inoculated against the virus in Saudi Arabia.

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