The UAE reported 1,599 new coronavirus cases on Sunday. This brings the total number of infections recorded since the pandemic began to 639,476. Three people died, bringing the overall death toll to 1,834. Officials said another 1,570 patients beat the virus, taking the total number of recoveries to 617,767. The Ministry of Health and Prevention said it carried out 254,639 Covid-19 tests in the past 24 hours The authorities have used widespread testing, strict safety rules and one of the world's fastest vaccination programmes to curb the pandemic. <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/2021/07/04/uae-approves-moderna-vaccine-for-emergency-use/" target="_blank">Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine</a> has also been recently approved for emergency use in the UAE. The vaccine has 94 per cent efficacy and becomes the fifth coronavirus vaccine to be introduced in the UAE after Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Sputnik V and the China-made Sinopharm. Meanwhile, almost <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2021/07/04/coronavirus-637-fully-vaccinated-in-the-uae/" target="_blank">two thirds of the UAE population are fully vaccinated</a> against Covid-19, the health authorities said. Officials said at least 63.7 per cent of the population have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine. The latest figures also show that just under three quarters – 73.8 per cent – of the population have received at least one dose. <br/>