Libya’s National Center for Disease Control announced on Thursday that 683 new coronavirus were recorded, in addition to the recovery of 533 cases and eight deaths during the last 24 hours.

The center said in its statement that it had received 3988 samples to detect with 3305 of them testing negative. Of the 683 positive cases, 155 were discovered through contact tracing.

The total number of cases in Libya since March stands at 35,208, with 14,755 active cases, 19,894 recoveries and 559 deaths.