On today's update, we have UAE’s latest coronavirus figures, periodic PCR tests will be required for teachers and pupils of Abu Dhabi’s private schools and a UK court freezes the assets of BR Shetty and other NMC shareholders and executives.

Saudi Arabia is to stop government contracts for companies that do not have regional headquarters in the kingdom, the reopening of the causeway between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia promises a billion-dollar boost to the island kingdom and a rocket attack in Iraq has killed a civilian contractor and injured several others, including a US soldier.