Oman has detected another 322 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country, the country’s Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
To date, the country has reported 4,341 cases of Covid-19. The sultanate’s coronavirus death toll now stands at 17.
According to the Health Ministry, a total of 1,303 patients have recovered from the disease.
On Wednesday, Oman’s government announced that it will cut the budgets of government entities and the military 5 percent in a bid to soften the blow of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The country had already previously cut budgets for governments entities in mid-April as a result of the pandemic.
In a separate announcement, the country’s minister of financial affairs said that government measures to help its economy through the pandemic have so far totalled $3.4 billion.
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