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Seven more people died of the coronavirus in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Sunday, as King Salman extended indefinitely a curfew officials said has not been sufficiently observed.
Saudi Health Minister Tawfiq Al Rabiah warned last week that Covid-19 cases in the kingdom could rise to an upper limit of 200,000 in the next few weeks if public adherence to a curfew imposed on March 21 continued to be weak.
The Control and Anti-corruption Authority announced that a group of men were arrested over the weekend for assault and damaging a police vehicle. They were stopped for breaking the nightly curfew and then tried to pay officers a bribe to let them go.
Saudi Arabia's confirmed coronavirus cases passed 4,400 on Sunday, health ministry spokesman Mohammed Abdulaali said. The new fatalities, who ranged in age between 38 and 90, raised the kingdom's death toll from the pandemic to 59.
Travel has been banned between Saudi Arabia’s 13 provinces and the major cities have been sealed off. These include Riyadh, which has the most recorded cases at more than 1,300.
The Saudi religious establishment has been urging compliance with the orders of the temporal authorities and on Sunday ordered the distribution of holy water to hospitals treating people with the coronavirus.
The official news agency said Abdulrahman Al Sudayes, the official in charge of the Great Mosque of Makkah, ordered water from the Well of Zamzam in the city to be delivered to hospitals across the country to enhance the “material and moral support” to the patients.
The decision “affirms the social responsibility and national duty” of the religious organisation in charge of the Great Mosque, the Saudi Press Agency said.
Oman’s authorities announced 53 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total to 599. The official news agency said the government has recorded three deaths from the epidemic overall.
The number of Covid-19 cases in Kuwait stood at 1,234 after 80 new cases were detected in the previous 24 hours.
Kuwait Health Ministry spokesman Abdullah Al Sanad said 1,091 people were being treated in hospital, of whom 29 were in intensive care. The number patients who have recovered rose to 313.
The municipal authorities closed a total of 159 shops and seven shopping centres for violating health measures relating to the coronavirus that were imposed since last month, Kuwait’s official news agency said.
In Bahrain, authorities released 1,793 prisoners in the last three weeks “due to the circumstances the country is passing through”, Attorney General Fadel Abou Al Ainein said on Sunday.
Mr Abou Al Ainein told the official news agency that among those released were 901 covered under a royal pardon issued in mid-March. The remaining inmates had their prison time substituted with “alternative punishment”.
Prince Khalifa Bin Salman, Bahrain’s prime minister, said the authorities were seeing “preemptive measures” against the coronavirus as “bearing fruit”.
“Hope is big to bypass this emergency situation,” he said.
Bahrain has reported at least 1,000 coronavirus infections, with six deaths.
Updated: April 12, 2020 07:35 PM
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