The Saudi Arabian government is spending millions of dollars as overseas travelers and those exposed to coronavirus patients are quarantined in hotels.
Offering a ray of hope, however, the government is splurging millions of dollars to quarantine thousands of overseas travelers and those exposed to infected people in otherwise empty hotels around the kingdom.
Nearly 1,900 rooms in hotels and other tourism facilities in Riyadh had been reserved for quarantine cases, along with more than 2,800 in Mecca and another 1,900 in the kingdom's eastern region, the tourism ministry said on its website at the end of March. Despite the pressures of round-the-clock confinement, Tuwaijri – who was put up in a plush suite – said it felt like"going on a vacation."
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