The recent spike in coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh has mainly occurred among young people who may not have been following precautionary measures, said an official at the Kingdom’s Health Ministry in an interview with Al-Ekhbariah TV Channel reported on Saturday.

Riyadh has borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in Saudi Arabia, consistently reporting the highest number of infections per region as the total number of COVID-19 cases in the Kingdom continued to rise through June.

According to Abdullah Asiri, the assistant undersecretary for preventive health at the Ministry of Health, many of the new cases have been young people, who have often showed no symptoms and may have been violating the precautionary measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus.

“During the past days, we have seen a lot of COVID-19 cases among the youth. These are mainly asymptomatic cases and a possible cause of the spread and transmission of the infection in their homes in large numbers. These youth have possibly been in noncompliance of the precautionary and preventative measures,” Asiri told Al-Ekhbariah TV Channel, as reported by Saudi Gazette on Saturday.

SOURCE: ALBILAD