Eight more people succumb to COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

An employee of a bakery waits for customers in the nearly deserted Hayat mall in the Saudi capital Riyadh, after the lockdown measures due to the novel coronavirus were partially eased by the authorities, on May 14, 2020. (AFP)

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said on Monday that eight more people have died from the COVID-19 coronavvirus, pushing the Kingdom's death toll to 320. 

The ministry recorded 2,593 new confirmed cases, the majority of  which where in Riyadh, Makkah and Jeddah. 

This raised the overall number of cases across Saudi Arabia to 57,345. It also reported 3,026 new recoveries, meaning that 28,748 people have now recovered from the virus.