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Saudi Arabia shuts entry and exit into Jeddah, brings forward curfew

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11:10 - 29/03/2020 Sunday
Update: 11:11 - 29/03/2020 Sunday
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A man withdraws money from an ATM outside the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB), after an outbreak of coronavirus, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
A man withdraws money from an ATM outside the Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB), after an outbreak of coronavirus, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Saudi Arabia shut down entry and exit into the Jeddah governorate and brought forward a curfew there to begin at 3 p.m. local time (1200 GMT), state news agency SPA said on Sunday.

The curfew in Jeddah previously began at 7 p.m. Saudi Arabia applied the same measures to Riyadh, Mecca and Medina last week.

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