The Sultanate will be hoping for some reprieve in the coming week as the last week and the month of June, especially, was the deadliest.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday the world is in an extremely dangerous period of the Covid-19 after the contagious Delta variant was found in nearly 100 countries.
At a press briefing, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Delta variant is still evolving and mutating to emerge as the most dominant variant of Covid-19 in many countries.
The number of Covid-19 related deaths reported increased by 70 to 292 last week from 222 reported a week before.
According to Ministry of Health (MoH), the number of cases reported during the same period increased by 143 to 13,962 cases from 13,819 cases a week before.
At the same time, 938 people were admitted to public and private hospitals for treatment.
Currently, there are over 30,376 active cases in the country, which means 11.23 per cent of the total infected patients are sick. However, there were only 16,046 sick people in the country as of June 2 this year.
As of Thursday, the number of inpatients in public and private hospitals was 1,591, an increase of 50 from 1,541 reported the previous week. The number of patients in ICUs went up by 66 to 530 from 464 the previous week.
MoH has warned that the Sultanate is currently seeing a worrying rise in the number of Covid-19 infections, which has led to an increase in the number of inpatients in health institutions, including those in ICUs.
The MoH analyst Ibrahim bin Ahmed al Maymani said that June 2021 saw the highest number of new infections of over 50,274 since the beginning of the pandemic in the Sultanate.
He said that Oman has reported 25 deaths on average daily in June, which is the highest rate since the beginning of the pandemic, while 344 deaths were recorded in April this year, on an average of 11.5 deaths per day.
Al Maymani said the number of inpatients in hospitals doubled by 98 per cent, compared to 808 at the end of May, bringing the cases until the end of this month to 1,597, an increase of 789 cases.
The Sultanate is currently seeing a worrying rise in the number of Covid-19 infections, which has led to an increase in the number of inpatients in health institutions
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