{"id":36589,"date":"2021-08-17T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=36589"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T10:00:18","slug":"the-latest-developments-on-covid-19-in-the-uae-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/08\/17\/the-latest-developments-on-covid-19-in-the-uae-239\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest developments on COVID-19 in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Tuesday that it conducted 247,213 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of its intensified testing campaign, MoHAP announced 1,115 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases in the UAE to 704,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry, the infected individuals are from various nationalities, are in a stable condition, and are receiving the necessary care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MoHAP also noted an additional 1,544 individuals had fully recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of recoveries to 682,809.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MoHAP also announced the death of 3 patients due to COVID-19 complications in the past 24 hours bringing the death toll in the UAE to 2,006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Tuesday that it conducted 247,213 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36590,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589\/revisions\/36590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}