KUWAIT - Kuwait's Ministry of Health said that 717 people tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), while three patients died of the disease in the past 24 hours.
BEIRUT - The Kuwaiti airlift continued transporting relief and humanitarian needs to Lebanon for the eighth consecutive day, with the arrival of two planes carrying about 100 tons of urgent needs, following a recent explosion at Beirut port.
AMMAN - Jordan announced the closure of its land borders with Syria for a week, coinciding with the increase in local infections with COVID-19 the majority of which are coming across the border.
ISTANBUL - Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez announced the start of the Oruc Reis Turkish vessel of two-dimensional seismic survey work in the eastern Mediterranean.
KUWAIT - Greece urged its neighbor Turkey to engage in serious talks to settle the escalating dispute over their maritime zones in the Aegean and the East Mediterranean. (end) ibi