MERS Virus Kills More in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Health Ministry said four more people have died from MERS virus bringing the death toll from SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32.

Health ministry’s website said Monday that two people had died in the western city Taif and other two were pronounced dead in the Eastern Province, where most cases have been registered.

Two weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) had raised the global death toll from the SARS-like virus MERS to 31, after a new fatality in hard-hit Saudi Arabia.

Previously known as novel coronavirus, the disease was last month renamed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, reflecting the fact that the bulk of the cases are in that region.

Source: www.aljazeera.com