Qatar and Bahrain record jump in coronavirus cases, Kuwait bans flights


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  • Thursday, 12 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO - A team of doctors and nurses prepare themselves before heading out to their designated residential areas to check on residents who returned from Iran if anyone is infected with the novel coronavirus, at Isa Town Health Center, south of Manama, Bahrain, March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar reported 238 more coronavirus infections among individuals under quarantine in a residential compound on Wednesday, the latest Gulf state to record new cases in a regional outbreak that prompted Kuwait to cancel all commercial passenger flights.

Bahrain earlier announced 77 new infections among citizens evacuated by plane from Iran, which has emerged as an epicentre for the virus in the Middle East. Two meetings of G20 economies due to be held in Saudi Arabia have been postponed.

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