Riyadh, May 6 (IANS) :The Saudi health ministry Monday announced four more deaths and three new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus cases, raising the number of infection to 414, including 115 deaths. The new deaths were reported in Jeddah.
Meanwhile, one infected woman in her forties fully recovered and was discharged from a government hospital in Riyadh Monday.
Saudi Arabia is seriously fighting the infection and has established three medical centres in the country that are dedicated to receive only MERS coronavirus cases. More centres will be opened soon.
The first such case was diagnosed in 2012. Despite the registering of new cases on a daily basis, the World Health Organisation has not yet declared the infection as epidemic.
