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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus cases have risen by a fifth in the past 24 hours, with the figure now standing at 511, a health ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Riyadh accounted for 72 of the 119 new cases and 48 of the new infections belong to people who had come in contact with others who were known to be affected.
“We have to obey the social distancing rules to avoid these disturbing cases,” the spokesman said at a news conference in the country’s capital.
Out of the 119 new cases, 72 of them are located in Mecca, 34 are located in Riyadh, one is in Dammam, four are in Al Qatif, and three are in Al Ahsa.
An additional three cases are in Khobar, the health ministry said.
During the last few weeks, the Kingdom has taken extreme measures to avoid the spreading of the virus such as closing down mosques for the customary five daily prayers or Friday congregations, halting of flights and suspending the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage.
Over the weekend, the defence ministry started to deploy mobile hospitals across the country to support efforts to curb the virus, the state news agency reported.
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They “are equipped with advanced machinery and have a medical team,” said the agency.
The country has also temporarily suspended work in the government sector and most of the private sector.
Gulf States together have recorded more than 1,000 infections, many linked to travel to neighbouring Iran, which is a centre for the outbreak in the Middle East.
Kuwait announced it was imposing a nationwide 11-hour curfew from 5pm to 4am starting Sunday until further notice.
“Regrettably, failing to comply with the Ministry of Health’s instructions to stay indoors has forced the government to impose a partial curfew,” Kuwait’s deputy prime minister, Anas Khaled Nasser Al Saleh, said during a press conference.
A Civil Defence Committee will issue identification cards for people working in vital sectors to ensure they can move about during the curfew.
An additional two-week suspension of government and private sector work has also been applied.
The Kuwait Health Ministry announced a further 12 cases of the virus, raising the total number of infected people in the country to 188.
Oman also took precautionary measures to avoid the spreading of the disease.
The government has set up a Supreme Committee for Dealing with COVID-19, which announced on Sunday the suspension of the printing, distribution and sale of all newspapers, magazines and publications.
It also reduced the number of employees in public offices to 30 per cent, the remaining 70 per cent will continue to work from home as indicated by their employers.
The committee has banned all types of public gatherings and warned it will punish violators.
Oman has reported 55 cases of coronavirus with no deaths.
Updated: March 22, 2020 06:49 PM
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