Saudi MERS infections soar ahead of hajj pilgrimage

MERS coronavirus infections have soared in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, killing three people and forcing a Riyadh hospital to close its emergency ward, officials and newspapers said Thursday. The Saudi Gazette said authorities shut the emergency ward at one of the capital’s largest hospitals... "after at least 46 people, including hospital staff" contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.  




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