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Saudi Arabia's coronavirus cases exceed 50,000

Published : 16 May 2020, 22:35

  DF-Xinhua Report
Medical workers disinfect a vehicle returning from Saudi Arabia at the land checkpoint Al-Nuwaiseeb in Ahmadi Governorate, Kuwait, May 12, 2020. File Photo Xinhua.

Saudi Arabia's coronavirus cases reached 52,016 on Saturday, with the registration of 2,840 new infections, health authorities said.

The health ministry tweeted on its Twitter account that ten more died from the coronavirus, raising the death toll to 302, and 1,797 individuals recovered, bringing the accumulated number of recoveries to 23,666.

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources, Bandar bin Ibrahim Al-Khorayef, recently said that the coronavirus would reshape the global commercial shape, the Saudi Press Agency reported Friday.

He said that the virus outbreak would be followed by radical changes in various concepts of global trade.