Families of healthcare workers who died of Covid-19 while helping people in Saudi Arabia’s hospitals will be given 500,000 riyals ($133,000) as a gesture of thanks.
Cases of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia are dropping, with Saturday being the third day in a row that new cases remained under 1,000.
Vaccinations are rising, with 29.5 million doses having been handed out so far, the government says. Close to ten million people are fully inoculated, and nearly 20 million have had one dose.