Riyadh: The health authorities have so far screened 3,195 passengers who arrived in Saudi Arabia on direct flights from China ever since the novel coronavirus broke out in the city of Wuhan.
The Ministry of Health said that 1,415 other passengers who arrived on indirect flights from China have also been screened to avert an outbreak of the virus.
Meanwhile, two Indian sisters who arrived from their country after visiting China have tested negative.
The Saudi health authorities have ended the quarantining of the Indian siblings who were kept in isolation without showing the 2019nCov symptoms.