Three new cases of novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV), including a death, were reported by the Ministry of Health here yesterday.
The deceased was a Saudi man, 46, from Wadi Al-Dawasir, 480 km from Riyadh. The other two victims were from Taif. One of the two patients is a Saudi man aged 65, who is suffering from chronic diseases and is being treated at a hospital in Taif. The other patient is a 68-year-old Saudi woman, also suffering from severe chronic diseases.
"Both these two new cases are being treated at a hospital in Taif,” a ministry official told Arab News yesterday.
With the latest casualties, the total number of virus victims has reached 46, which includes 28 deaths.
It was observed that the pattern of the venue of the incidence of the disease is being shifted to places in the western and central provinces.
Although the disease was reported in other parts of the Kingdom in earlier incidences, subsequently, the virus cases were confined to the Eastern province, particularly in Al-Ahsa.
MD Rasooldeen - Arab News
