A Kuwaiti health ministry worker looks on before scanning returning expatriate workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon upon their arrival at a containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City on March 15, 2020. / AFP / YASSER AL-ZAYYAT
A Kuwaiti health ministry worker looks on before scanning returning expatriate workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon upon their arrival at a containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City on March 15, 2020. / AFP / YASSER AL-ZAYYAT
A Kuwaiti health ministry worker looks on before scanning returning expatriate workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon upon their arrival at a containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City on March 15, 2020. / AFP / YASSER AL-ZAYYAT
A Kuwaiti health ministry worker looks on before scanning returning expatriate workers from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon upon their arrival at a containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus di

Video: How the Middle East is fighting coronavirus

Across the region countries are taking extraordinary measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19

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March 17, 2020

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