Thanks to Lucie Lecomte for this post on the Arabic website of the Saudi Ministry of Health. Again, the Google translation is awful; I've done very minor editing.
Batin - Fahad Martian Directorate of Health Affairs what has been circulating in the social media in Hafr Al-Batin about the spread of the disease "Corona" in the province, confirmed the rumors untrue. The Directorate "We hope accuracy and take the information from its source in the future, as the Ministry of Health has allocated the portal has a comprehensive site for disease Koruna be announced through all cases detected, confirming that these news are baseless and can not hide such news, and demanded citizens and residents not to listen to rumors fired by some psychopaths.
's message had spread on Twitter and Alwatsab stating "باستنفار and panic among the staff of King Khaled Hospital Hafr Al-Batin after injuring three nurses Pkorona and the death of one of them, and injuring seven nurses and put them intensive care, and three deaths yesterday of Reviewers of the hospital and Mkhaltin for patients, and discreetly severely Mdercún health and taking pledge from staff not to talk about the subject at all in any media or social, "and signed the letter (b nurse and administrative at King Khaled Hafr Al-Batin and familiar with the events.)To the extent that this is understandable, it's alarming: People passing along rumours are "psychopaths," and it sounds as if a lot of previously unknown cases have occurred among the nurses of King Khaled Hospital. And staff are being sworn to secrecy about what's going on—a step clearly borrowed from Cuban public health's response to cholera.
