Coronavirus may cost Saudi Arabia GDP $12b: reports

A passenger wears a mask as she waits at passport control in Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, following the outbreak of the coronavirus in China. (AFP)

March 04: If the deadly Coronavirus, which has already spread to 73 more countries apart from China, prolongs to the sheer dismay of Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom may lose about $12 billion of its annual GDP, which is equivalent to country’s 20 per cent non-oil GDP and seven percent of its total GDP, an eminent Turkish media house "TRT World" and a renowned American website have reported.

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