The Arab Gulf state saw the number of cases accumulated this week to more than 400 for the first time since mid-July, adding 461 infections and two deaths within 24 hours of Thursday.
When asked if the national sterilization program, which included a curfew at night, could be redeployed, the spokesman for the National Emergency Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), Seif al-Zahri, told Emirates TV: “Yes, it is imaginable in some spaces where we are seeing the major infections.”
NCEMA, which posted an excerpt of the interview on its Twitter page on Thursday night, cannot be contacted without delay to comment outside business hours.
On 24 June, the regional business and tourism centre lifted the national curfew in force since mid-March and advertising companies and public offerings reopened.
Health Minister Abdul Rahman Bin Mohammed al-Owais warned Tuesday that the number of cases could occur just after an “alarming” build-up in the past two weeks.
The UAE recorded 65,802 infections and 369 deaths. The government reveals where infections or deaths occurred in the country of seven emirates or states.
The infection rate fell from a peak of more than 900 at the end of May, however, the country has experienced periodic peaks since then, despite a general downward finish.
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