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As many as 150 members of the Saud royal family have probably contracted the novel coronavirus disease in kingdom which has prepared the King Faisal hospital to treat the VIP patients, New Times reports. US media said it got a Read more
Oman’s national carrier, Oman Air, will fly out Friday citizens stranded in Tanzania because travel restriction because of the coronavirus outbreak. The foreign ministry of the sultanate will send an Oman Air flight to both Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar Read more
The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) has announced a stimulus package aiming at supporting vital sectors, banks and Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SMEs) to resist adverse effects of the Coronavirus in the Gulf country. The measures announced Thursday include Read more
Kuwaitis have laid into a famous national actor after she asked authorities to flash out expats amid coronavirus-linked health crisis, Arabian Business reports. Hayat al-Fahad, an iconic top artist who starred in several Arabic dramas, caused a controversy Tuesday after Read more
Iran, hard hit by covid-19, Wednesday said it has the capacity to supply neighboring countries with testing kits in the combat against the disease. Alireza Biglari, head of Iran’s local Pasteur Institute, told state-run News Agency molecular diagnostic kits produced Read more
Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank BSC has hired Deutsche Bank AG’s CEO Jamal Al Kishi to become the new CEO of the parent company, Gulf International Bank B.S.C, Bloomberg reports. Al Kishi will also become the deputy group CEO, GIB Read more
Oman’s Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is contemplating a cut in staff working on its oil and gas projects in response to the spread of the coronavirus, Bloomberg reports. The cut is in plan and is in discussion with contractors, PDO Read more
Iran has rejected claims by the family of Bob Levinson, a former FBI officer, that the operative has died in its prisons. Spokesman of the Iranian mission at the UN, Ali Reza Mir Yousefi, said in a statement Iran does Read more
Iran, which had invited Doctors without Borders to send a team of doctors to help address the fast-spreading Covid-19, made a U-turn, fearing the doctors of the international humanitarian organization would be spies. Iranian officials rejected the offer of Read more
Kuwait’s banking association has decided to postpone repayment of loans and credit card facilitations for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to help address the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The measure, which also includes interest, Read more