A day after receiving 10 ten students from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Saudi Arabia confirmed that the results of the preliminary laboratory tests conducted on them were negative.
Ministry, however said that even then all 10 students will remain in the preventive isolation allocated for them for 14 days under full medical supervision.
This will help authorities to complete the additional tests and check on their health and safety.
As reported by Saudi Press Agency (SPA) the ten students arrived on Sunday in the Kingdom on a private plane in implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, to evacuate them from China.