Riyadh, June 26, 2021, SPA -- The Ministry of Health reaffirmed here today that protection against severe and critical Coronavirus complications, would be through taking the vaccines, pointing out that the vaccines are greatly safe and effective. On the other hand, it released new statistics related to the pandemic, in the last 24-hour, across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including reporting as many as 1,301 new confirmed infections against 1379 recoveries. Meanwhile, the active cases rose to 11,239, including 1,450 in critical conditions, putting the overall infections tally at 482,003 against a toll of 463,004 recoveries and 7,760 fatalities as 17 new deaths were reported. --SPA 17:32 LOCAL TIME 14:32 GMT 0021 www.spa.gov.sa/w1576956