Among the four newest cases reported from Saudi Arabia today, three are from Riyadh.
Also, Saudi authorities reported four more cases in a steadily growing Riyadh outbreak.
Saudi Arabian health authorities have infection-source clues for only 5 of the 10 cases, one of which involves a health worker from another country.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported 3 new MERS-CoV cases in Riyadh including 1 in a healthcare worker, bringing to 10 the number of cases confirmed in the city in the past 5 days.
As Riyadh confirms another case, local media are reporting a family cluster in the area.
In an ongoing trickle of MERS-CoV cases, especially from the Riyadh area, Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported another infection. The latest case involves a 38-year-old Saudi man, and though he is from Riyadh, it's not clear whether his illness is part of recent transmission occurring in the city's hospitals or is from the community.
Saudia Arabia's case count reaches 1,063, while South Korea gives its health minister the boot over handling of the outbreak there.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today announced two new MERS-CoV cases, both of them from Riyadh, an area that over the past several weeks has experienced a spate of hospital-linked cases.
Saudi Arabia reported another new MERS-CoV case in Riyadh today, while the World Health Organization (WHO) supplied details on eight other recent cases, including two possible chains of transmission involving at least five of the patients.
South Korea's government considers the hospital-linked outbreak over, as researchers reported on early vaccine and antibody findings.
