Coronavirus Cases Rise to Eight in Qatar

Qatari's Health Ministry announced that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country rose to eight on Tuesday.

According to Al Arabiya channel, a new infected coronavirus case was registered, raising the number of infected cases to eight.

The Ministry had confirmed on Monday four new coronavirus cases.

On Saturday March 1, Qatar reported the first case of coronavirus infection.

“The 36-old infected Qatari had recently returned from Iran,” the Health Ministry said in a statement, adding that he is in a stable condition.

Yesterday, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia reported the first infected coronavirus case in the both Arab countries.

Iran is the only country in the Gulf region that has reported deaths from the Coronavirus; the virus has been renamed by the World Health Organization as Covid-19.

Most of the victims are from the capital, Tehran, and the city of Qom, where cases of Covid-19 first emerged.

Earlier on Tuesday, former Advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has reportedly been infected with Coronavirus.

“Hussein Sheikholeslam has been infected with Coronavirus and is currently hospitalized in Tehran’s Masih Daneshvari hospital,” the editor-in-chief of the state-run news website Entekhab Mostafa Faghihi tweeted

Sheikholeslam was a senior advisor to Zarif and had previously served as Tehran’s ambassador to Syria.

It is worth mentioning, several officials have contracted the virus in Iran, which has the highest death toll in the world outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.