Translation of "والعدد" in English

والعدد الكلي للأشخاص المصابين.

and the number of people that were infected in total.

ومع ذلك، لم يكُن هنالك قيادةً موحدة، والعدد القليل من المحترفين المتمرّسين.

However, there was no unified command and few of  these troops were battle-hardened professionals,