RIYADH: More than month down after the Kingdom reported its first case of coronavirus, the infected terrorizes the inmates of the royal palaces rendering over a hundred family members infected according to an international news report.
As many as 150 Saudi royals have reportedly contracted the virus, claimed the report published on Thursday.
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Riyadh’s governor – a senior prince – is in intensive care while dozens of others are sick with symptoms, the report says. The doctors at the royal family’s elite hospital are preparing around 500 beds for an expected influx of other royals. The hospital has declared an internal “high alert”.
“Directives are to be ready for VIPs from around the country,” the operators of the elite facility, the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, wrote in the alert.
“We don’t know how many cases we will get, but high alert,” the message stated, instructing that “all chronic patients to be moved out ASAP,” and that only “top urgent cases” will be accepted.
King Salman, 84, has gone into isolation in an island palace near the city of Jeddah on the Red Sea, while Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 34-year-old de facto ruler, has retreated with many of his ministers to a remote site on the same coast.
The tally in Saudi Arabia has reached to 3,115 cases of confirmed infections from the virus and over 40 deaths, according to the data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
