Corona week in the Arab world: injuries drop, Saudi Arabia topped the rankings

The number of new infections with the new Corona virus (Covid-19) has steadily increased, since the virus appeared at the end of last year in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and the State of Comoros is the last Arab country to join the list of infections at the beginning of May, after announcing the first case of “Covid-19”.

At the end of last week, specifically in the period between Friday July 10 and Thursday July 16, Arab countries recorded more than 79,000 new cases of coronavirus, which is a drop in the number of infections compared to in the previous week, in which the Arab countries recorded over 85 injuries.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remained at the top of the list with more than 19,000 injured, as shown in the following figure:

Saudi Arabia ranked first in Corona injuries throughout the week, with 19,911 injuries, then Iraq with 16,536 injuries, then Oman with 10,000,849 injuries, then Egypt with 6,517 and fifth place Kuwait, which recorded 4,828 injuries, as the graph shows. the next:

As for deaths, Arab countries recorded more than 1,700 new deaths during the same period. Due to the new Corona virus, Iraq tops the list with 640 cases, while four countries: Comoros, Tunisia, Jordan and Djibouti have not recorded any deaths, as shown in the following figure:

Iraq ranked first in Corona deaths throughout the week with 640 cases, followed by Egypt with 503 deaths, then Saudi Arabia, which recorded 270 deaths, then by Algeria, 64 deaths, and Oman, which recorded 54 deaths, and in fifth place, as shown in the following figure:

It should be noted that all data and figures were obtained from the official pages of the ministries of health of Arab countries and Arab news agencies on the social networking sites “Facebook” and “Twitter”, except of the State of Bahrain. Global counters have been used.

It should be noted that some countries did not publish the daily epidemiological report on “Covid-19” during certain days, such as Somalia and Djibouti, and no injuries or deaths were recorded on unrecorded days; For lack of availability of its data.