King Salman of Saudi Arabia will receive treatment for a lung irritation at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah. Hours after undergoing medical testing, the state news agency announced this on Sunday.
The state news agency reported that the 88-year-old monarch will get antibiotic treatment until the inflammation went down, citing the royal court.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi announced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had postponed his visit to Japan. This visit, initially set to start on Monday, was delayed due to King Salman’s health issue.
“Saudi Arabia informed the Japanese government that due to the health condition of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed’s visit to Japan, which had been scheduled to begin on the 20th, had to be postponed,” Hayashi stated during a press conference in Tokyo.
King Salman experienced “high temperature and joint pain,” prompting him to undergo medical testing earlier on Sunday. According to the Saudi official news agency, this took place at the royal facilities at Al Salam Palace.
According to state TV at the time, the king was last admitted to the hospital in April for a standard examination.
King Salman, the guardian of the holiest places in Islam, took over as head of the world’s largest oil exporter in 2015. Before this, he served for more than two and a half years as the crown prince and deputy minister.
His illness coincided with the crown prince’s meeting in the kingdom with the U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to discuss a strategic accord between Washington and Riyadh.
A request for comment regarding the crown prince’s postponed trip was not immediately answered by Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Japan. During the May 20–23 trip, he was supposed to meet with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Japanese Emperor Naruhito.
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