Saudi Arabia has taken the threat of the novel coronavirus seriously, responding rapidly and robustly to slow its spread in the Kingdom and the wider Middle East.

Saudi Arabia’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was on March 2, 2020, in a citizen from Qatif, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern province, who had traveled from Iran via Bahrain.(1) The Kingdom had already taken action before that point. Five days prior

This report analyzes Saudi Arabia’s Response to the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic