Excerpt from previous report I posted tonight from CIDRAP:
In a brief statement today, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH)
said a 21-year-old "resident" of the country died of a MERS-CoV
infection and that two Saudi citizens are sick. The 21-year-old was
living in Hafr Al-Batin, a city in the Eastern province but about 300
miles north of Al-Ahsa, site of a recent hospital-centered outbreak.
The young man died after being admitted to a hospital intensive
care unit (ICU) at the beginning of this week, the MOH said. The
ministry did not list his home country or give any other details about
him. World Health Organization (WHO) officials have expressed concern
that guest workers from developing countries such as the Philippines
could contract the virus in Saudi Arabia and carry it back home.
The MOH said one of the other new cases involves a 63-year-old
Saudi woman who lives in the Eastern region, has chronic diseases, and
is in stable condition. The third case, the statement said, is in a
75-year-old Saudi who lives in Al-Ahsa governorate and is being treated
in an ICU. The patient, whose gender was not listed, also has chronic
health problems.
The three illnesses raise Saudi Arabia's MERS-CoV count to 43
cases and 27 deaths. Unofficially, they raise the global total to 58
cases and 33 deaths.
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