Saudi Arabia to pay families of health care workers who died from COVID-19

The government will disperse $133,000 per family.
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Workers clean and disinfect around the Kaaba on Aug. 1, 2020, traced with lines for easing the physical distancing between pilgrims due to the coronavirus, during the evening before the last day of circumambulation around the shrine, in the Grand Mosque of the holy Saudi city of Mecca, during the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. - AFP via Getty Images
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Saudi Arabia will compensate the families of health care workers who died from COVID-19, the official Saudi Press Agency reported Tuesday.

“An amount of 500,000 riyals ($133,000) will be disbursed to the families of the deceased due to the coronavirus pandemic, working in the government or private health sector, whether civilian or military, and whether Saudi or non-Saudi,” read a statement from the Saudi Cabinet.

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