# 7342
Earlier today several Arabic media sources reported on a suspected coronavirus case – recently returned from the UAE – who was being tested in Morocco (see Crofsblog A MERS case in Morocco? & FluTrackers thread.).
Just before noon, EDT today, Gregory Hartl – spokesperson for the WHO (who has been terrific at getting information out quickly) – released this update on twitter.
It can sometimes take repeated testing to confirm or exclude a diagnosis of MERS-CoV, so these results are tentative. But this is the latest information we have at the moment.
