G20 leaders to inject $5 trillion into the global economy
As part of a plan to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, G20 finance ministers and central bankers pledged Tuesday to address the debt burden of...
Virus has changed the face of the world
The planet is bracing for a long battle against the disease that has so far killed at least 33,000 people, infected more than 700,000...
Coronavirus infections in Iran crossed 40,000
The government warned the outbreak could run for several more months and cost over 10,000 lives, as the number of declared Coronavirus infections in...
King Salman offers to pay for Coronavirus patients’ treatment
While the agriculture ministry took steps to boost wheat and livestock supplies amid global fears of a food shortage, Saudi Arabia will finance treatment...
Old age is not the only risk for Coronavirus
Senior citizens undoubtedly are the hardest hit by COVID-19. In China, 80% of deaths were among people in their 60s or older, and that...
The Kingdom seizes 5 million hoarded masks amid Virus outbreak
State media reported Sunday that Saudi authorities have seized more than five million medical masks that were illegally stockpiled amid the Coronavirus outbreak, as...
King Salman urges G20 leaders to take ‘effective response’
There has so far been no collective action plan from the G20 and it has been criticized for its slow response.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman...
157 new virus deaths in Iran
Iran imposed strict new containment measures Thursday, after weeks of public appeals largely failed to prevent hundreds of thousands of Iranians taking to the...
Fear of epidemic spreads in the camps in Syria
Three million people live in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib, many of them families who fled homes elsewhere in Syria and are...
Syria ceasefire called upon to tackle virus threat
The government in Damascus has so far only reported one case of COVID-19 but fears are high that the virus could spread rapidly among...
