The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced seven new cases of MERS-CoV over the weekend, recorded in reports for epidemiologic weeks 8 and 9. Three of the cases are in Wadi ad-Dawasir, two of which appear to be part of an ongoing hospital outbreak.
The new Beni case is among 6 reported today, bringing the outbreak total to 859 cases.
Officials halted surveillance activities in Vuhovi after a nurse from Bisongo was killed.
Also, 3 new cases raise the outbreak total to 848, including 529 deaths.
The DRC warned, however, that travel between Beni and other affected areas could bring the virus back.
The country's health ministry reports 6 new cases and 5 new deaths, including that of an infant.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH), in its epidemiologic week 7 update, today added another MERS-CoV case to its growing total, in a man from its most recent hardest-hit city, while the World Health Organization (WHO) provided details on Saudi cases confirmed in January.
Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the 19th health district to confirm an Ebola case, the DRC's ministry of health said today in its daily update.
The case in Bunia is in a 6-month-old baby whose mother died from the virus. The mother was from Katwa, and her corpse was intercepted in Komanda, where the baby is currently being treated in an Ebola treatment center.
The developments lift the outbreak total to 823 cases, including 517 deaths.
Also, the health ministry reports 3 more cases in 3 different locations.
