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Posted: May 05 2014 at 6:44am |
1 life lost; 14 affected by MERS
Published — Monday 5 May 2014 LATEST STORIES IN SAUDI ARABIA The deadly MERS coronavirus claimed one more life and infected 14 others on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 112 since September 2012. A total of 411 cases have been reported since then. Of the 14 suspected cases uncovered on Sunday, four remain asymptomatic, while five are stable and being treated and five are in intensive care at local hospitals. In Riyadh, two women and four men, aged 27, 47, 55 and 77, were affected by the virus. One of the women is a 45-year-old working at a government hospital in the capital, while the other female patient is a 73-year-old who was suffering from cardiac disease and subsequently developed respiratory problems. Four men, aged 47, 61, 63 and 94, and a 40-year-old woman were infected in the Western Province. Two of these men suffer from end-stage kidney disease. Infected patients in Makkah are three women, aged 26, 27 and 37, and a 14-year-old boy. Four patients, meanwhile, have recovered from the coronavirus. Three men, aged 45, 48 and 81, and a woman from Riyadh, aged 77, who had been previously diagnosed with the disease have reportedly recovered at various hospitals in the Kingdom and have been discharged, according to a ministry official. Two of the men had been hospitalized in Riyadh, while the third had recovered at a hospital in Jeddah. http://www.arabnews.com/news/565906 |
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