Read < 1minuteA woman wearing a protective face mask disinfects the window of a bus, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Algiers, Algeria March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
An Algerian health official said on Wednesday that the country’s COVID-19 cases surged to 4,997 after 159 new ones were added in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, six new fatalities from the coronavirus were registered, raising the death toll to 476, Djamel Fourar, head of COVID-19 Detection and Follow up Commission, told reporters.
He noted that 130 more patients were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total recoveries to 2,197.
The Algerian authorities will maintain the partial nationwide lockdown until May 14.
