The UAE reported 1,538 <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/2022/02/08/abu-dhabi-doctors-treat-girl-struck-by-mysterious-covid-condition/" target="_blank">Covid-19 cases </a>on Wednesday, the lowest daily total recorded this year. Infections have fallen for three days in a row. Four patients died during during the 24-hour reporting period and 2,457 people were declared free of the virus. Authorities have recorded 862,514 cases, 791,318 recoveries and 2,273 deaths to date. The number of active cases dropped to 68,923. The latest infections were detected as a result of an additional 477,945 <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/2022/02/08/countries-you-can-travel-to-without-a-pcr-test-from-portugal-to-sweden/" target="_blank">PCR tests</a>. More than 129.5 million tests have been conducted in the Emirates to date. The number of tests per day has regularly exceeded 400,000 this year and has sometimes topped half a million. Mass testing and widespread vaccination remain central to the UAE’s pandemic recovery strategy. On Tuesday, Abu Dhabi paved the way for members of the public to receive a <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/2022/02/08/abu-dhabi-announces-fourth-doses-of-pfizer-and-sinopharm-covid-19-vaccines/" target="_blank">fourth dose</a> of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Sinopharm vaccine, the shots most commonly administered in the UAE. Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre said people who had taken up to three doses of either of these vaccines, or a combination of the two could receive an additional dose after a gap of six months. More than 23.7 million vaccine doses have been administered to the public since the start of inoculation in December 2020. About 95 per cent of the UAE public is now fully immunised against Covid-19.
