GENEVA: Saudi Arabia confirmed six new MERS cases, taking the global number of infections with the deadly virus to
136, World Health Organisation said yesterday.
Glenn Thomas, spokesman for the UN health agency, said it had been informed by Saudi authorities that the virus had
been detected in three men and three women in Riyadh.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, which appeared first in the kingdom last year, has killed 58 people
worldwide, 49 of them in the country, according to official Saudi figures and WHO.
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