DUBAI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Kuwait said on Monday three people, including a Saudi national, who returned from Iran were infected by the new coronavirus, state news agency KUNA reported.

The three cases, the first in the Gulf state, were among the 700 people evacuated from the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad last week, KUNA said. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)