The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior has said plans has been concluded to re-impose movement restriction in the city of Jeddah for a period of 15 days, beginning on Saturday (June 6) until June 20.
Recall that the Kingdom had recently witnessed a downward trend in number of infections but the numbers in the last two days show a reverse trend.
On Thursday the Kingdom recorded 1,975 new coronavirus cases, four days after relaxing movement restrictions and reopening about 90,000 major and minor mosques across the Kingdom.
On Friday, a report by the Saudi Gazette quoted the kingdom’s ministry of health as disclosing that the new infections were recorded within 24 hours, adding that 806 recoveries were also recorded in the kingdom.
Of the new cases, Riyadh reported most number of infections with 675 cases while Makkah, Jeddah, Madinah and Hufof saw 286, 259, 124 and 112 new cases respectively.
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the Kingdom is now 93,157 and recoveries are now 68,965.
According to a report by the Saudi Gazette, the measures include: No movement in the city from 3 p.m. until 6 a.m.; Suspension of prayers in mosques; Suspension of workplace attendance in ministries, government agencies and private sector companies.
Others are: suspension of internal requests in restaurants and cafes and prevention of any gatherings of more than five people.
However, all domestic travel through air and land will be allowed, and entry into and out of the city will not be restricted outside the curfew hours.
