The Saudi Ministry of Health announced today, Monday, that “the results of the first laboratory tests of the ten Saudi students returning from China were negative, and showed their safety from the virus.”
The Ministry, through its account on the social networking site, “Twitter”, stated that the students will be isolated in custody for 14 days under medical supervision, in order to perform additional checks for them to check on their health.
On Sunday morning, a private plane carrying Saudi students evacuated from Wuhan arrived to the Kingdom.
“”The total number of deaths from the Corona virus in China has risen to 361, an increase of 57 from the previous day,” the National Health Commission of China announced earlier Monday, adding that 56 of the new deaths were in Hubei Province and one in Chongqing Municipality.