The Saudi health ministry announced on Wednesday that one patient has recovered from the new coronavirus.
The Saudi national is in good health and is expected to be discharged from hospital, it said.
Separately, the General Commission for Audiovisual Media close cinemas until further notice over coronavirus.
The Saudi embassy in Lebanon also announced that a Middle East Airlines flight will be made available on Saturday and Sunday to evacuate willing nationals to the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia has registered 21 cases of the virus.
Riyadh's preventive measures include locking down its eastern Qatif region, suspending the Umrah pilgrimage and travel bans on 14 countries. The causeway linking Saudi Arabia to Bahrain was closed on Saturday.
Bahrain earlier announced 77 new infections among citizens evacuated by plane from Iran, which has emerged as an epicenter for the virus in the Middle East. The new infections were among 165 individuals flown home on Tuesday in the first repatriation flight from Iran. A second government-chartered flight is set for Thursday.
Those who did not test positive will be quarantined in a dedicated facility, Bahrain’s government communications office said in a separate statement.
There are no direct flights between Bahrain and Iran, the world’s fourth most affected country, with more than 8,000 infections.
Kuwait, which has 72 confirmed coronavirus cases, announced it would halt all commercial passenger flights starting on Friday and declared a public holiday from March 12 to March 26 except for entities providing essential services.
It banned people from going to restaurants and cafes and asked them to no longer hold Kuwait’s traditional diwaniya private and public gatherings, state news agency KUNA said.
All Gulf Arab states have recorded infections but no deaths.
Qatar reported 238 more coronavirus infections among individuals under quarantine in a residential compound on Wednesday.
The rise in cases in Qatar, which took the country’s tally to 262, was among expatriates who had been quarantined inside one compound after three residents were diagnosed with the virus on Sunday, the health ministry said.
