Kuwait and Russia have called on its citizens to refrain from non-essential travel abroad to avoid contracting the coronavirus.
The total number of infections in the Gulf state is 45, with no new cases reported in the last 24 hours, a health official told the media.
Meanwhile, a senior Russian official asserted that the decision will help "protect" the citizens.
"Now is a time when it is not worth leaving Russia," he told local news agencies on Saturday.
The country has quarantined hundreds of people to prevent the spread of the virus, with three citizens receiving treatment after they contracted the virus on a cruise ship in Japan. Two Chinese nationals, who were earlier taken to hospital in Russia with the virus, have since recovered.
Elsewhere, Oman's health ministry on Saturday declared that a woman infected with the COVID-19 has recovered, with the total number of cases at six.
The country most affected by the outbreak in the Gulf region is Iran, with more than 40 deaths and several hundred confirmed infections.
U.S. President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, according to two officials familiar with the decision, and congressional Democrats denounced the removal of the nonpartisan official from a top security post.
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey of trying to turn the country into a Turkish protectorate.
The Trump administration moved forward with the sale of more than 20,000 US-made assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document seen by Reuters, pushing ahead with a sale that the administration of former president Joe Biden had delayed.
The Ministry of Justice said seven companies reportedly based in the UAE and sanctioned by the United States for ties to Sudan do not operate in the country.
Dubai Police announced on Friday it arrested 222 beggars during Ramadan and Eid, after a campaign was launched under the slogan “An Aware Society, Free of Begging,” in partnership with other government entities.