# 7738
Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers has picked up a media report from the usually reliable Al Sharq, that indicates Turkey is investigating five suspected MERS-CoV cases.
Our only source on this story at present is a syntax-challenged report appearing in Arabic press. I tend to view these reports cautiously, as machine translations are inexact, and can sometimes be misleading.
If and when more information is available, I’m certain FluTrackers will have it on this thread. Meanwhile, here are excerpts from today’s report:
Saudi Ambassador in Turkey: the death of a Saudi suspected of being infected with «Corona» .. And medical evacuation for three cases to Riyadh
Revealed the Saudi ambassador in Turkey just Mirdad for the death of Saudi woman in middle age in Trabzon Hospital suspected of being infected with HIV Coruna.
He said in a statement to Asharq »that there are five cases suffered ill and was hospitalized, including diseased heart was the work of entrepreneur has emerged, as has been the transfer of three other cases, medical evacuation to the Kingdom, in addition to the case of death.
He explained that the four cases and اجهتهن problems in communicating with the medical staff in the hospital by virtue of that they do not speak English or Turkish, and the hospital staff does not speak Arabic or English, called the embassy to intervene; since sent the President of the Consular Section and one of the translators of assets at the embassy to Trabzon and a process of translation and other actions that helped them communicate.
He explained that if the death was of a woman in middle age and was accompanied by her son and daughter did not write God a cure for the ill and their health status, and the Embassy to transfer her body to Istanbul, and provided the embassy for her two children and condolences, and revealed to them the situation they were in their mother and understanding all the details. As has been their help in booking travel arrangements were for them and then they went to Riyadh.
And that there is a state was suffering a disease of the heart and put her pacemaker and discharged from the hospital.
Between Mirdad that there is suspicion of Corona's disease is not confirmed, pointing to the attention of the Turkish Ministry of Health SUBJECT after communication with the embassy.
As this article points out, while MERS is suspected, it has not been confirmed.
