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Saudi Arabia has confirmed 1,028 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, marking the second day of over 1,000 new cases since the recent spike.
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The majority of new cases were detected in the city of Riyadh with a total of 431, the city of Mecca had 220 while the Eastern region saw 157 new cases.
An additional 824 people also recovered from the infection, taking the total number of recoveries to 391,362.
Meanwhile, the death toll reached 6,858 after 12 people died due to COVID-19-related complications. Saudi Arabia has confirmed a total of 408,038 COVID-19 cases as of April 21.
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