LONDON: Saudi Arabia announced 36 more deaths from COVID-19 and 1,569 new cases of the disease on Wednesday. Of the new cases, 78 were recorded in the capital Riyadh, 75 in Hail, 68 in Makkah and 66 in Jeddah. The total number of recoveries in the Kingdom increased to 257,269 after 2,151 more patients recovered from the virus. A total of 3,269 people have succumbed to the virus in the Kingdom so far.