Saudi authorities have seized a total of more than five million illegally stockpiled medical masks from two separate locations. The commerce ministry took hold of 1.17 million masks from a private store in Hail, northwest of the capital, after authorities Wednesday confiscated more than four million masks stored in a facility in the western city of Jeddah in violation of commercial regulations, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. The kingdom's health ministry on Sunday said the death toll from the COVID-19 disease had doubled to eight as cumulative infections rose from 1,203 to 1,299 -- the highest in the Gulf region.