RIYADH — Saudi Arabia on Monday announced 1,327 new coronavirus cases and 28 new fatalities from the disease. The new cases reported in the Kingdom increase the total number of people who have contracted the virus to 299,914, health ministry spokesman Dr. Muhammad Al-Abdel Ali was quoted by Saudi Press Agency (SPA) as saying. The recent fatalities raise the Kingdom's virus-related death toll to 3,436. There have been 1,432 recoveries from COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries to 268,385. Hufof with 73 cases topped the list of new corona infections on Monday. It was followed by 65 cases in Hail, 64 each in Makkah and Tabuk, 63 in Jazan, 53 in Madinah, 52 in Abu Araish, 45 in Riyadh, 43 in Jeddah, 42 in Dammam, 35 in Hafr Al-Batin, 32 in Buraidah, 31 in Samtah, 29 in Najran, 28 in Yanbu, 27 in Beesh, 25 in Abha, 24 in Sabya and 21 in Al-Harjah. The rest of the cases were scattered in different cities and governorates across the Kingdom, the spokesman said.
