Global Pandemic: Saudi Arabia's Success Against the Coronavirus

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Saudi Arabia has done an exceptional job of containing the spread of the coronavirus in their Kingdom but religious and global economic concerns remain. The holy month of Ramadan approaches and precautions are being taken as visits to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina have been suspended and mosques are closed. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Fahad Nazer, the Spokesperson for the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the United States, on the difficult but necessary precautionary measures Saudi Arabia took early on to control the spread of coronavirus and a recent oil production deal made with Russia and the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Friday April 17th 2020 I'm Trey Inks the Gulf has widely contained the spread of coronavirus, as some areas of the Middle East
0:46.6	continue to get hammered by COVID-19.
0:48.9	Saudi Arabia acted early, it acted quickly, and it acted decisively. We implemented a number of measures that
0:57.4	we felt were very necessary, some of which have been unprecedented to be honest.
1:01.5	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
1:09.8	The Middle East is fighting a new battle against an invisible enemy. On April 6th the region
1:14.6	officially reported more than a hundred thousand cases of COVID-19. Since then
1:19.3	some countries have peaked. Others are working around the clock to isolate, test, and treat thousands of new patients.
1:26.0	Over the next few minutes, you'll get the latest global headlines on the virus and hear from the
1:29.7	spokesperson for the embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United States about how the
1:33.9	kingdom is slowing the spread of coronavirus. Reports this week say that
1:38.0	member states to the Gulf Regional Council are using artificial intelligence to
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