The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday reported 218 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,473 samples tested in the last 24 hours.

The ministry also reported 10 deaths and 677 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period. The figures show a significant decrease in the daily COVID-19 cases in the last week.

Data by the ministry shows that the total number of cases is 150,458 and the total number of reported deaths is 6,908.

This comes as all public universities were reopened on Saturday after three months of closure as part of COVID-19 prevention measures.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally is 201,784,478 and the total number of deaths is 4,278,683, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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