Saudi Royals affected by coronavirus.

Up to 150 members of the Saudi royal family are infected with coronavirus, it has been reported.

King Salman and Mohammed bin Salman have both gone into isolation to avoid the outbreak, reports added.

Doctors at the elite King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh that treats members of the royal family are preparing 500 more beds for an expected influx of patients. 

The operators of the facility said: ‘Directives are to be ready for VIPs from around the country’.

This was written in a ‘high alert‘ sent out electronically on Tuesday to senior doctors and later obtained by the Times. 

The message said they don’t know how many cases they will get but that all chronic patients are to be moved out as soon as possible and only top urgent cases will be accepted.   

Any infected staff members will now be treated at a less elite hospital to save room for royals.  

Salman, 84, has secluded himself on an island palace near Jeddah, while the crown prince has moved to a remote site on the Red Sea coast. more here

UK: Sadiq Khan STILL blames commuters for packed Tubes.

Sadiq Khan today again blamed commuters for packed Tube trains during the coronavirus crisis as he was shown footage of the cramped conditions on live TV.

The Mayor of London claims ‘too many people are not staying at home’ and again insisted they could not run any more services as he admitted only around half of all trains are now going during rush hour.

Today there are waits of up to 20 minutes between trains when usually it would be three to five minutes, leading to more busy carriages and platforms packed with key workers with no choice but to go to work.  

He added: ‘There is a concern that still too many people who really, really should not be going to work are using public transport during the rush hour and the key message is unless you really have to get to work, work from home, and if you do have to go into work, please avoid the rush hour more here

India: Tablighi Jamaat Members Abuse And Spit On Doctors And Staff At Quarantined Centre In Delhi

Some individuals who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin and were quarantined at railway buildings in the city have been abusing and spitting on doctors and staff members, ANI has reported.

As per the report, 167 Tablighi Jamaat members were taken to the Tughalakabad Quarantine Centre from Markaz Nizamuddin yesterday night (31 March) to be placed in quarantine.

Ninety-seven were accommodated at the Diesel Shed Training School Hostel Quarantine Centre and 70 were accommodated at RPF Barrack Quarantine Centre.

As per CPRO Northern Railway Deepak Kumar the Tablighi members have been acting in an unruly manner and were making unreasonable demands for food. They also refused to cooperate with the doctors and staffers at the quarantine centre by abusing and even spitting on them.

They later began spitting in the premises and later began roaming around the building. continues here

Iraqi scholar says “Coronavirus is Allah’s punishment on Chinese”. . .then he caught it.

Shi’ite Iraqi Islamic scholar Hadi Al-Modarresi, who is based in Qom, Iran, said in a video that was uploaded to the Internet on February 28, 2020 that the spread of coronavirus is undoubtedly an act of Allah that is divine punishment against the Chinese for their treatment, mockery, and disrespect towards Muslims and Islam. In early March, online sources reported that Al-Modarresi contracted coronavirus.

Hadi Al-Modarresi: “It is obvious that the spread of this virus is an act of Allah. How do we know this? The spread of the coronavirus began in China, an ancient and vast country, the population of which makes up one seventh of humanity. More than a billion people live in that country. The authorities in that country are tyrannical and they laid siege to more than a million Muslims and placed them under house arrest. The journalists in that country began to mock the niqab of Muslim women and they forced Muslim men to eat pork and drink wine. Allah sent a disease upon them and this disease laid siege to 40 million [Chinese people]. The same niqab that they mocked has been forced upon them, both men and women, by Allah, by means of the state authorities and officials.

“Islam forbade people from eating insects, but [the Chinese] mocked this matter. And there you have it, this disease spread from the world of animals – be it bats, ants, or snakes, the result is the same – to the human world and it has scared humanity in its entirety.” continued here

Iran: ‘Zionists Developed the Coronavirus’

Having already speculated that the coronavirus is an American-made biological weapon, the Iranian regime took the next natural step over the weekend and claimed the disease was created by “Zionists” who want to start a war with Iran.

The Jerusalem Post noted that Iran’s state-run PressTV “has been pushing antisemitic conspiracies about the coronavirus to distract from the mullah regime’s mishandling of the pandemic.”

The conspiracies are coming straight from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization and one of the most powerful forces in Iranian economics, politics, and foreign policy: continued here

Iran: A cleric’s cure for coronavirus becomes butt of jokes in Iran.

Amid anxieties in Iran over the coronavirus outbreak and a flurry of precautions to prevent its spread, a controversial ayatollah has declared a new method to “cure” the virus: applying violet oil to the anus.

Abbas Tabrizian, described by his supporters as “the father of Islamic medicine of Iran,” began focusing on “Islamic medicine” when his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Although doctors had given up hope on her, Tabrizian said he was able to cure her after “a short treatment he devised,” according to a website affiliated with the cleric. The Najaf-born cleric studied at the prestigious seminary in the same city, the website said. continued here