The Health Ministry yesterday announced the death of an 81-year-old Saudi woman due to MERS, a SARS-like virus, at a hospital in Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province.
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The novel coronavirus has claimed another three lives, with a new case having been reported.
The three patients had been suffering from chronic diseases. Two of them had reached End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
The latest victim, diagnosed yesterday, was a woman who was suffering from chronic cardiac disease, said Dr. Khalid Al-Mirghalani, spokesman for the Health Ministry.
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Coronavirus Snuffs Out 3 More Lives in KSA
The Kingdom has reported 3 more deaths from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths globally to 30.
The Ministry of Health said yesterday the three deceased, aged 24 to 60, had chronic diseases, including kidney failure. They were hospitalized a month ago.
The ministry also announced a new case of the respiratory virus called MERS-nCoV, bringing to 38 the number of those infected in the Kingdom.
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Health authorities in Saudi Arabia and across the region can now stock up on a revolutionary disinfectant product which combats the SARS-like novel coronavirus which has already killed 24 people in the Kingdom.
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JEDDAH: One of the patients being treated at a hospital in Al-Ahsa for coronavirus infection has died, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
In a statement posted on its website, the MOH the latest fatality was "suffering from chronic heart diseases, diabetes and high blood pressure, in addition to kidney failure."
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JEDDAH — Health Ministry officials in Jeddah dismissed as “false” reports that said a woman died at a local hospital after she was infected with the coronavirus.
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JEDDAH: Another case of novel coronavirus infection in the eastern part of the kingdom was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
"One case of coronavirus has been recorded in the Eastern region, and he is now under the medical health care receiving the proper treatment," the MOH said in a brief statement posted on its website.
The new discovery brings to 31 the total number of coronavirus infections in the Kingdom, mostly in the eastern town of Al-Ahsa, since the SARS-like virus first emerged in September 2012.
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Two health workers in the Kingdom have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care — the first evidence of such transmission inside a hospital, the World Health Organization said.
The new virus, known as novel coronavirus, or nCoV, is from the same family of viruses as those that cause common colds and the one that caused the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that emerged in Asia in 2003.
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The Ministry of Health said yesterday that it had stopped the spread of coronavirus from Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province to other parts of the Kingdom.
The virus had reached Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, but not further incidences have been reported.
“No new cases of the virus were found in any part of the Kingdom,” Dr. Ziad Al-Memish, undersecretary to the Ministry of Health for Public Health, told Arab News.
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Saudi Arabia has taken steps to protect its people from the coronavirus. The experience and knowledge that the country has gained fighting coronavirus can benefit the rest of the world, said a visiting WHO official.
Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general of the WHO’s Health Security and Environment, said the Kingdom has taken the coronavirus situation seriously and its Ministry of Health has initiated public health action, including intensifying surveillance, initiating investigations and research and putting preventive measures in place.
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