The National Center for Disease Control analyzed on Tuesday, June 23, 775 blood samples.

The center confirmed that 731 samples have tested negative, and 44 others tested positive.

The 44 new cases distributed as following:

• Sabha: 4 cases
• Tripoli: 9 cases
• Ben Jawad: 4 cases
• Misrata: 6 cases
• Abyar: 10 cases
• Ajdabiya: 10 cases
• Benghazi: 1 case

NCDC also confirmed the recovery of 16 patients, raising the number of recoveries to 132. The death toll of Covid-19 has risen to 17 after the registration of 3 new deaths in Sabha and 1 in Tripoli.

The number of COVID-19 infections in Libya has risen to 639, with 490 active cases.