Saudi Arabia announced on Monday the detection of the first coronavirus case.
The country said the patient is a Saudi national traveling from Iran to the Kingdom through Bahrain, Saudi State TV reported.
A staff member of the health authorities of the southern federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg demonstrates on a negative sample the test for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in a laboratory in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on March 2, 2020.
The death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 on Monday, March 2, 2020, as more people died in China, Iran and the US and Europe raised its state of alert.
EU president Ursula von der Leyen said the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) had increased its risk assessment for Europeans after Italy’s outbreak doubled in 48 hours.
