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“Concerned about protecting the fitness of citizens and ensuring their safety, the government of the kingdom has taken the decision to temporarily suspend the trip,” he said in a statement attributed to an anonymous Ministry of the Interior official.
Saudi Arabia has already closed one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Kaaba, the cubic construction of the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, due to fear of coronavirus.
Worldwide, there are at least 109,577 cases of the new virus, with more than 3,800 deaths attributed to it. The number of other people who have recovered is approximately 62,000.
Countries around the world have taken steps to impose controls and end large-scale public events as they prepare for a significant accumulation of virus cases.
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In the United States, the california federal and state government is ready to get thousands of others aboard the inactive cruise ship that sent the Grand Princess about 10 miles off the coast from Thursday, with at least 21 other people inflamed on board. The ship was carrying more than 3500 people from 54 countries.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that if you expect this to not happen, the U.S. government could shut down some parts of the country. hit hard by the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Italian government has already put another 16 million people in northern Italy under quarantine. Museums and archaeological sites have been closed, weddings have been cancelled and restaurants have been asked to keep visitors more than a metre away.
The country reported 7375 cases of COVID-19, coronavirus disease, and 366 deaths, more than any other outdoor country in Asia.
France, which has the current number of cases in Europe after Italy, prohibits the chances of more than 1,000 people to restrict the spread of coronavirus.
Israel announced on Monday that anyone arriving in the country from the country would be quarantined for 14 days, a resolution that comes weeks before the busy Easter and Easter holidays.
“This is a delicate decision, but it is obligatory for public fitness,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Public fitness comes first.”
Greece has banned the public from attending Thursday’s Olympic torch lighting ceremony at ancient Olympia, an occasion that kicks off the countdown to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, which has still been canceled.
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In Egypt, the Prime Minister announced a ban on the transience of giant public gatherings and all the occasions involving the movement of other people between cities. Its resort south of Luxor announced that the city will close tourists on Monday until medical experts can read about all hotel visitors and passengers sending cruise ships to the area.
Qatar, a neighbor of Saudi Arabia, has detained 15 countries, adding China, Egypt, Iran, Italy, South Korea and Syria. The country announced separately through its state news firm that it would close schools and universities from Tuesday until further notice.
In Iran, court news firm Mizan said the government had temporarily released some 70,000 prisoners due to considerations of the spread of the virus in the country’s prisons, up from 54,000 announced in the past.
Anxiety about the developing effect of the epidemic on the world economy and a war for the value of oil between Saudi Arabia and Russia have caused stock markets around the world to collapse. Market decline came when global oil values suffered their brunt since the 1991 Gulf War began.
Saudi state oil Saudi Aramco fell by 10% on Riyadh’s Tadawul inventory exchange and forced a halt to Aramco’s operations.
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In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2046 points, or 7.9%, when negotiations opened Monday, while the S-P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell 7.4 percent and 7.3%, respectively.
Andrew O’Reilly and Frank Miles of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to the report.