国际英语资讯:COVID-19 cases exceed 170,000 in Iran, Turkey; Saudi Arabias tally surpasses 100,000_时事

国际英语资讯:COVID-19 cases exceed 170,000 in Iran, Turkey; Saudi Arabias tally surpasses 100,000

As people rushed to streets and parks at the weekend, Koca urged the citizens to stick to social distancing. "Let's not overdo the normalization," he tweeted.

Saudi Arabia registered 3,045 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total cases to 101,914, the health ministry tweeted.

Its death toll reached 712 after the reporting of 36 new fatalities. The recoveries increased to 72,817 with 1,026 newly recovered cases.

Egypt on Sunday registered 1,467 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections to 34,079, said the health ministry.

Death toll from the disease in the country rose to 1,237 after 39 fatalities were added. A total of 8,691 recoveries have been registered in Egypt.

The Israeli Ministry of Health reported that the number of coronavirus patients increased to 17,836 in the country on Sunday, after 111 new patients were detected.

According to the ministry, the number of death cases increased from 295 to 298. The number of recoveries increased to 15,091, with 41 new recoveries.

Iraq's Health Ministry on Sunday said that the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 12,366 after setting a new record of daily increase with 1,268 infections.

The ministry said in a statement that 28 people died from the coronavirus during the day, bringing the death toll in the country to 346, while 5,186 patients have recovered.

Qatar's health ministry on Sunday announced 1,595 new infections of COVID-19, increasing the total number of confirmed cases in the Gulf state to 68,790.