# 7418
A brief announcement from the KSA MOH overnight informs us of two new MERS-CoV cases (1 in Riyadh, 1 in the `Eastern region’).
The first, a 41 year-old Saudi female it describes as `from the contacted people to one of the confirmed cases’, which implies she was a contact of a previously confirmed case. The second, a 32 year-old cancer patient (gender not given), is currently in an ICU.
Up until very recently the average patient profile in Saudi Arabia has overwhelmingly been male, with an average age in the late 50s.
The following chart shows the last 10 reported cases reported by the KSA MOH, as logged in FluTrackers MERS-CoV Case list, maintained by Sharon Sanders.
Among the last 10 cases - of the 7 cases where the gender is known, 6 are female - and the average age has shifted downward to 38.
Whether this signifies an actual trend or is just a temporary blip in the data, is something we’ll have to see more information in order to determine.
Here is the KSA MOH statement, which also informs us of the death of previously announced case from the `Eastern region’.
MOH: "Two New Cases of Novel Coronavirus Recorded and One Case Passed Away"
21 June 2013
Within the framework of the epidemiological surveillance of the novel Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that two confirmed cases of this virus have been recorded. The first case is for a 41-old-year Saudi female in Riyadh, from the contacted people to one of the confirmed cases, but her conditions is stable. The second case is for a 32-year-old Saudi citizen in the Eastern Region, who is suffering from Cancer and now at the ICU receiving the proper treatment.
Within the same vein, MOH has announced the death of one case in the Eastern Region, who had been previously announced to be infected with this virus and admitted to hospital on 26th of April, 2013 (corresponding to 16th of Jumada Al-Akhera, 1434 H), May Allah have mercy upon him.
