Off the wire
• Cambodia arrests Australian nurse, 2 Cambodian accomplices in surrogacy crackdown  • Senior CPC official stresses study of key plenum  • Bangladesh remittances total 4.25 bln USD in July-Oct period  • 1,000-year-old ruins unearthed in north China  • Heavy clashes occur in northern Myanmar town  • S.Korean opposition parties discuss impeachment of president after prosecutors' announcement  • 1st LD: Xi, Obama agree to maintain healthy, steady growth of China-U.S. ties  • Beijing starts collecting emblem designs for 2022 Winter Games  • China's online insurance sales surge in 2015  • Shanxi publishes details of Great Wall protection sites  
You are here: 　 Home

Saudi warns rise of MERS corona virus cases

Xinhua, November 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Saudi Arabia has warned of expected rise of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) corona virus cases due to the coming of cold weather, Okaz local newspaper reported on Sunday.

The warning was made after four new cases were registered among Saudi males in the last seven days, in which all of them caught the virus through direct contact with camels.

Infection Control Consultant, Mohammed Abdulrahman, told the newspaper that despite the efforts of official organizations to encourage the public to be more careful while dealing with camels, many people aren't convinced that the animal is the source of the deadly virus.

Saudi Arabia has registered 1,483 cases, including 616 deaths since 2012, which the country topped the world of number of cases and mortality rate. Endit