Prognosis
Post-Lockdown Mideast Shows Signs of Virus Trouble Returning
- Saudi Arabia’s intensive care units fill up as kingdom reopens
- Case counts also rising in Israel, Egypt, Iran after loosening
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Saudi Arabia had barely inaugurated a slogan for loosening its coronavirus restrictions -- “Return carefully” -- when health officials looking at the numbers started to threaten another lockdown.