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News out of Saudi Arabia on their recent novel coronavirus outbreak has been hard to find today, but a short while ago I picked up on a tweet from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s MOH twitter account, that indicated that two more people have died.
As I was translating this, Gert van der Hoek at FluTrackers was posting a story from the Al Yaum newspaper on this thread with very much the same story.
"Corona" reap new Vatan in Al-Ahsa
Abdullah Al-Amari - Riyadh 05/05/2013 - 20:52:00
Held by the Ministry of Health on Monday morning press conference to talk about the Corona virus and from which emerged a number of cases recently.
And disclosed the ministry said in a statement distributed by the evening that in the framework of transparency pursued by the Ministry of Health in dealing with all the media and the desire to inform the citizens and residents to new health information or epidemic of infectious diseases, including HIV Corona or the so-called severe acute respiratory syndrome acute .
The Ministry of Health announced for monitoring the 3 cases of the new Corona virus during the past few days, killing 2 mercy of God and the case remained stable health status and in Al Ahsa .
The ministry said it continues take all precautionary measures for Mkhalatian By routers local and international scientific sampling of them to see if there have been cases, including where it is the number of cases registered recently (13) Status .
The ministry pointed out that the corona virus is one of the viruses that infect the respiratory tract, accounting for 15% of viruses Influenza that infect humans, while This is a new style does not even exist Now the world accurate information about the source of the virus and its modes of transmission as there is no preventive vaccination or antibiotic treatment for the virus .
The ministry assured everyone that the cases are still limited deployment compared to other types of flu and that the situation does not call for health For concern, as it is closely following the situation and to ensure the health and safety of this dear country and its citizens valued and residents to rest his soul .
Of the 10 new cases reported in this cluster, 7 appear to have died. As of this time, I’ve not located any official statement on the Saudi MOH website.
