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The Saudi MOH announced their 135th MERS case of 2019 today, involving a 56 y.o. male from Medina (aka Madinah), which is a major pilgrimage destination for Umrah and Hajj visitors.
The Holy month of Ramadan is now less than two weeks away, when roughly 1 million religious pilgrims with make the journal to Mecca and other Holy sites to perform Umrah.
While MERS reports have slowed in the past few weeks, KSA is only 2 cases short of matching their entire 2018 total (n=137).
