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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
Saudi Arabia’s Petrochemical Company has entered into a deal with South Korea’s SK Gas to construct and operate two major petrochemical facilities; a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and a poly propylene unit in the kingdom at an investment of $1.8 billion, 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
A Turkish military aircraft has left today Wednesday from Ankara with medical aid for Italy and Spain, two worst hit European countries by the Covid-19 disease, Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu reports. Italy is the far affected country with 12,428 Read more