RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Monday announced 1,258 new coronavirus cases and 32 new deaths from the disease.

The new cases reported in the Kingdom increase the total number of people who have contracted the virus to 280,093.

The recent fatalities raise the Kingdom’s virus-related death toll to 2,949.

According to the Ministry of Health, 89 of the newly recorded cases were in Riyadh, while there were 75 reported in Al-Hufoof and 65 in Dammam.

There have been a further 1,972 recoveries from COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries to 242,053.

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