Jordan's state finances will be deeply hurt by a loss of revenue caused by the impact of the coronavirus on its economy but the aid-dependent kingdom will be able to repay its foreign debt obligations, the finance minister said. Mohammed Al Ississ said in remarks on state television that...

The Gaza Strip has no more coronavirus test kits, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, amid fears of disaster if the illness spreads in the blockaded, densely packed enclave. "Testing at our central laboratory has stopped, after coronavirus test kits completely ran out," Gaza health...

Turkey will monitor the mobile phones of those diagnosed with the new coronavirus to ensure they do not break quarantine, authorities said Wednesday, marking the latest measure to stem an outbreak that has surged over the last month. Turkey will start tracking citizens and send them a...

To some, Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman is guilty of a "catastrophic failure" of leadership for not urgently conveying the coronavirus threat to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that elected him. Milder critics have described Litzman as a "tragic" leader, whose limited authority...