Tehran has allowed the disease to travel abroad by deliberately refraining from stamping passports of travellers. FMTNews Tehran Bahrain
Paramedics treat a patient infected with coronavirus at a hospital in Tehran.
Many of the recorded infections throughout the Gulf region are linked to travel to Iran, which hosts several important shrines and pilgrimage sites for Shi’ite Muslims.
Saudi Arabia, which has a minority Shi’ite population and had previously criminalised travel to Iran, last week denounced its key regional rival for granting Saudi citizens entry amid the outbreak.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has denied that not stamping passports has anything to do with coronavirus and called on Riyadh to avoid politicising the epidemic.
Three individuals have already been reported to the public prosecutor, state news agency BNA reported.Saudi Arabia, which has suspended the Umrah pilgrimage and locked down its eastern Qatif region where many infections are located, announced 24 new cases overnight, bringing its total to 45. Passenger traffic through all land crossings with Jordan was also suspended. Commercial and cargo traffic continued.Kuwait reported eight new infections, taking its total to 80, as the country started a two-week public holiday that has been declared to help contain the spread of the virus.
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