Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH – The Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed that the results of the preliminary laboratory tests conducted on 10 Saudi students, who were evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of new Coronavirus, were negative. “The students will remain in the preventive isolation rooms allocated for them for 14 days under full medical supervision to complete the additional tests and check on their health and safety,” the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting the ministry sources as saying.

These students arrived in Riyadh on Sunday on board a special plane following the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman to evacuate them from China, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Saudi Embassy in China made great efforts to facilitate their travel procedures.

Meanwhile, the ministry sources reaffirmed that no infection with the novel coronavirus has been recorded in the Kingdom. The ministry, however, continues to implement precautionary measures to prevent the virus from entering the Kingdom as it is examining arrivals from China and conducting intensive awareness campaigns to combat and prevent the spread of the virus.

The Ministry also emphasized the complete readiness of isolation rooms inside hospitals, and that the Command and Control Center at the ministry has taken many precautionary measures following the outbreak of the virus in China. The center also started implementing international health regulations that are followed in such cases in full coordination with all relevant authorities to deal with such situations through the implementation of a number of preventive measures.