Sunday, June 16, 2013

Saudi MOH: 3 More MERS-CoV Cases & 4 Fatalities

 

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My thanks to @Ironorehopper at FluTrackers  for tweeting this update from the KSA Ministry of Health, announcing 3 new coronavirus cases, and the deaths of 4 previously announced cases.

 

Jeddah is a major port city located to the west of Mecca, while Taif (where two patients are announced today to have died) is just east of the holy city.

 

Here is the machine translation of the press release.  The English language corona

 

(Health): Registration of 3 cases of infection with HIV (CK) and 4 new deaths

The first citizen in the eastern region at the age of 42 years and receiving treatment in the hospital and suffers from chronic asthma, and the second case of a citizen in the area of ​​Riyadh at the age of 63 years and is receiving treatment in intensive care and suffer from multiple chronic diseases. The third case is a child in Jeddah at the age of two years, and suffers from a chronic disease of the lungs and receiving treatment in intensive care. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of 49 cases.

 

It also announces four deaths of previously recorded cases, including two deaths in the province of Taif and two in the eastern region, may God have mercy on them.

 

Has also been recently examined 104 samples from different regions and were negative except for what has been announced