Saudi Arabia shuts entry and exit into Jeddah, brings forward curfew

Saudi Arabia shut down entry and exit into the Jeddah governorate and brought forward a curfew there to begin at 3 pm local time (1200 GMT), state news agency SPA said on Sunday.

The curfew in Jeddah previously began at 7 pm Saudi Arabia applied the same measures to Riyadh, Mecca and Medina last week, Reuters reports.