Also, the WHO's MERS emergency committee met today to discuss the latest outbreak developments.
Also, Saudi officials reported four more cases from Riyadh, and South Korea announced new prevention steps in the wake of its outbreak.
New reports indicate hospital MERS outbreaks in both Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Three of the four new cases appear to involve contact with other patients, and the ECDC issues a risk assessment.
In a related development, the WHO provided more details on 13 recent Saudi cases, 12 with hospital-outbreak links.
In addition, a new WHO update details 29 recent cases from Riyadh, 24 of them connected to a large hospital outbreak.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported eight more lab-confirmed Middle East respiratory coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases, one of them fatal and all from Riyadh, where a large hospital-linked outbreak is ongoing. The MOH also said five case-patients announced previously have died from their infections.
A side-by-side look at MERS-CoV and SARS infection patterns shows differences and some similarities, according to a study presented this week at the International Conference on Emerging and Infectious Diseases (ICEID) in Atlanta.
Officials say 53 of the outbreak cases have links to one hospital and 4 involve Filipino health workers.
In other develoments, the hospital at the center of the outbreak temporarily closed most outpatient clinics to slow the spread of the virus.
