publish time

24/03/2020

author name Arab Times

publish time

24/03/2020

RIYADH, Mar 24: The Saudi Ministry of Health announced the registration of the first death from coronavirus a 51-year-old Afghan expat died yesterday in the Kingdom as well as 205 new infections were reported bringing the total number of infections to 767 cases.

Sources added that the health of the Afghan man had deteriorated rapidly after he was transferred to the emergency department of a hospital in Medina and that he died yesterday evening Monday.