The kingdom, which has 274 confirmed cases, has banned entry to sites to stem spread of Covid-19

Saudi authorities have prevented admirers from entering and asking at the two heavenly mosques in Mecca and Medina with an end goal to battle the spread of the coronavirus. 

In an announcement gave late on Thursday, Hani receptacle Hosni Haider, a representative for the General Presidency of Mecca's Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, said admirers would never again be permitted to play out their five day by day petitions in the flood territory simply outside the dividers of the two sacred mosques. 

Specialists had just founded a prohibition on admirers supplicating close to the Kaaba, the 3D square molded structure the world's 1.8 billion Muslims implore towards. 

"Security and wellbeing offices chose to suspend the nearness of individuals and supplications in the external yards of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina beginning from 20 March, as a feature of preparatory and safeguard measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus," Haider said. 

Soon after the declaration, photographs were posted internet demonstrating Saudi police making an edge outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina with laborers shutting entryways prompting the complex. 

As of late, Saudi specialists have acquainted a progression of measures with contain the spread of the coronavirus, referred to authoritatively as Covid-19. 

A boycott was presented not long ago on the Umrah journey, which 7,000,000 Muslims play out each year. 

Before visiting Saudi Arabia, travelers are required to give authentications to inoculations in their visa applications. 

The realm has additionally suspended worldwide flights, shut schools and colleges and brief cut off the eastern territory of Qatif, which has the vast majority of the nation's cases. 

Prior on Thursday, Saudi Arabia's King Salman talked freely about the pandemic just because, saying the realm would take measures to control its spread. 

"We are surviving a troublesome period throughout the entire existence of the world, however we are completely mindful that it will go in spite of its savagery, harshness and trouble," the 84-year-old ruler said in a five-minute broadcast address. 

Saudi Arabia has detailed 274 instances of the coronavirus as of Thursday, as indicated by the wellbeing service. 

The flare-up was marked a pandemic by the World Health Organization last Wednesday as the overall loss of life from the infection keeps on developing. Absolute cases have outperformed 235,000 across 160 nations.