RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Monday reported 967 new cases of COVID-19 to bring its total number of confirmed infections to 772,269, making it the highest number of daily cases reported in months. The Ministry of Health reported 997 cases on Feb. 19, 2022. Ministry figures showed that the highest number of Monday’s cases were recorded in Riyadh with 317, followed by Jeddah with 164, Dammam with 93, Makkah with 43, Madinah with 27, Taif and Dhahran with 26 each, and Abha with 24 cases. The ministry reported two deaths. There were 663 recoveries recorded on Monday, raising this total to 755,619, and there are a total of 102 critical cases. Saudi Arabia has so far administered almost 69 million vaccine doses. It carried out more than 34,000 new tests in the past 24 hours. The ministry said that Riyadh Health Affairs had carried out 3,553 inspection tours through 298 hospitals (52 private and 246 public), 332 healthcare centers, 1,449 medical complexes, and 1,474 pharmacies between May 28 to June 3 to ensure their compliance with COVID-19 precautionary measures. Last month, it confirmed that no monkeypox cases had been detected in the Kingdom following reports of the virus spreading in Europe and North America. Last week, the UAEs Ministry of Health announced three new cases of monkeypox, nearly a week after announcing its first case of the disease.