Saudi Arabia have announced that they have now successfully completed a deal worth $265 million with a Chinese firm to ramp up coronavirus testing as the kingdom eased a 24-hour curfew, except in hotspots including Islam’s holy city of Mecca.
The agreement with China’s Beijing Genome Institute (BGI) will provide for nine million COVID-19 tests, the government said in a statement. It said in line with the agreement “500 experts, specialists, and technicians” would come from China to conduct the tests.
