Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it was taking addition border measures amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the region.
The Interior Ministry will screen people entering the Kingdom by land, including via the causeway linking the country with Bahrain.
A source at the ministry said the security agencies have started immediate coordination with counterparts in the Gulf Cooperation Council to implement the border measures.
The Kingdom has also barred citizens and residents of the GCC countries from entering its territories for 14 days after returning from outside the region due to coronavirus concerns, state news agency SPA reported.
Travellers coming from any fellow GCC state must spend 14 continuous days in that country and show no signs of the coronavirus before being granted entry, SPA said.
It also cited an interior ministry source as saying that Saudi citizens or residents entering from a GCC country must inform authorities upon arrival in the Kingdom of any travel outside the GCC in the preceding 14 days.
The Health Ministry said Tuesday that no new case of the virus was reported in the past 24 hours.
Saudi Arabia reported its first case of coronavirus on Monday in a Saudi national returning from Iran, which has reported the most deaths outside China, where the flu-like disease originated.
Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah said the coronavirus is a global epidemic and no country is immune from it, urging the people against listening to rumors and to obtain information through official sources.
