Shawdesh Desk:

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has reported 24 new coronavirus cases and a Bangladesh national is among the victims, Arab News reports

The patient was in quarantine with 14 Egyptians in Makkah.

They have been infected after having contact with previously announced cases of people with coronavirus.

With the new ones, the total number of coronavirus cases in the Gulf kingdom stood at 86, it added.

Earlier, five Bangladeshi migrants were infected with the virus in Singapore and two in Italy.

Among the expatriates diagnosed in Singapore, four have fully recovered from the infection and returned home, according to the disease control agency of Bangladesh. But one of them remains in critical condition.

Three cases were reported in Bangladesh as well and one of them returned home after full recovery, the authorities said.

More than 132,500 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in 123 countries around the world, according to the WHO.

The total number of deaths has reached about 5,000 – a figure Dr Tedros described as “a tragic milestone”.