December 18 - 2020 KHARTOUM / EL GEZIRA Pedestrians in downtown Khartoum at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in March (Social media) The Sudanese Ministry of Health has reported that 401 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the country on Monday and Tuesday. 24 coronavirus patients died, and 206 recovered. This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic to 22,082. 1,384 patients have died in total, according to Ministry of Health statistics. The Sudanese police press office announced yesterday that the Chief of Police, Ezzeldin Mansour, is infected with coronavirus. The Minister of Health, Osama Abdelrahim, attributed the increase in the number of people infected with COVID-19 during the second wave to a “10 times increase” in testing capacities by the Ministry of Health.