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Cabinet orders shutdown after new infections surge

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12-05-2020 | 08:23

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The Cabinet issued on Tuesday a decision to shut down the entire country for four days as new Coronavirus cases surged.

The Cabinet said that the shutdown will start as of Wednesday May 13 night until Monday May 18 morning.

This as Minister Health Hamad Hassan told LBCI that the decision comes "in order to continue the field survey related to the confirmed cases and to curb the spread of the virus."

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