
On Saturday, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention recorded 1,538 new coronavirus infections and four additional coronavirus related fatalities.
An additional 1,411 recoveries were also reported.
The novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, and has infected more than 39 million individuals worldwide, resulting in over 1.3 million fatalities across 188 countries and territories.