After coexistence 57% of deaths in the Arab world in three countries … and more

4:13 p.m.

Saturday June 13, 2020

Report – Maha Salah El-Din

Cover – Michael Adel

Most Arab countries have started to implement more measures to coexist with the Coronavirus “Covid-19” and continue to reduce the precautionary measures they have taken over the course of 3 months to limit the spread of the virus; Which continues to infect thousands of people and kill hundreds globally and regionally, which is reflected in the scale of injuries and deaths in Arab countries this week, ending Friday.

In this data-driven report, we are monitoring this reversal, through numerical analysis, through charts and maps.

Countries in the Arab world recorded 410,234 injuries last night, an increase of 22.5% from last week, while the number of deaths rose to 5,000 and 401 cases, an increase of 24, 5% compared to last week. And deaths have seen a remarkable drop, especially in the Mortality Index, which has seen a significant increase in rates of increase in recent weeks.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continued to be at the forefront of the total number of injured in Arab countries, having surpassed 100,000 injured this week, while Comoros ranked first.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Algeria – in order – topped the death index, with 57% of the number of deaths in the Arab world, from the Corona virus.

Despite this, Yemen, which recorded just 136 deaths, surpassed the three countries in terms of death rate on the total number of injured, where 23% of the number of injured died, followed by Algeria with 7 %.

In Egypt, 3.4% of the total injured died, preceded by Sudan, Mauritania and Tunisia.

Saudi Arabia came in second place in terms of death rate out of total number of injuries, with 0.7% of those killed, and Qatar in last place, with a fatality rate below 0.1% of the total number of injured.

The number of countries that have not announced the total number of “pcr” tests they have performed has risen to 8; “Egypt, Syria, Mauritania, Yemen, Sudan, Algeria, Djibouti and Comoros, and the ‘pcr’ is the only test recognized by the World Health Organization to confirm infection with the Coronavirus.

While the percentage of total injuries to the number of tests in countries that announced them stabilized, reaching 5.7%, and the total number of tests reached 6 million, 96 thousand and 71 tests.

The United Arab Emirates continues to be the first in terms of the total number of PCR tests among Arab countries to monitor people infected with the virus, as they performed 2 million and 626,000 tests, an increase of almost half -million tests compared to last week.

Libya tops the index with 11,765 PCR tests, according to World Meter, an independent international website based in the United States of America, created by a group of developers in several countries, with the aim of making the data international. available in all data.

Qatar recorded the highest percentage of injuries out of the total number of tests they performed, while Jordan recorded the lowest percentage.

During this week, infections escalated in three countries, namely Iraq, Mauritania and Syria, and the rate of infections increased in other countries that had enjoyed stability for long periods, like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia, which announced in the middle of the week in an official statement its control over the virus, but it returned at another time. Its days to save injuries again.

This came after most Arab countries witnessed a relaxation of their precautionary measures to deal with the Corona virus, as shown in the following map.