There were 41 more Covid-19 fatalities and 3,537 new cases registered during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry said on Friday morning.

This compared with 26 coronavirus-related fatalities and 3,684 new cases reported on Thursday morning.

On Thursday, 5,459 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.

Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 2,185,497 Covid-19 cases, with 2,120,691 complete recoveries so far.

The vast majority of Covid cases and deaths have occurred since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began.

The death toll stood at 21,233 during the third wave and 21,327 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The kingdom's 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 13. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.