May 23, 2013
A man who had contracted the coronavirus has died in Saudi Arabia,
raising the death toll in the kingdom from the SARS-like virus to 17,
the health ministry announced on its website on Wednesday.
“A
male non-Saudi died on Tuesday in a hospital in the Qassim region where
he had been admitted several days ago with acute bronchitis,” the
ministry said.
The ministry announced on Monday that a patient
had died of coronavirus in the Eastern Region where most of the
kingdom’s cases have been registered.
But no new cases have been recorded in that region for five days, the ministry said.
The latest death brings to 17 the number recorded in the kingdom. The
ministry said most of those who had died were “elderly people with
chronic illnesse.”
Continued: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/23/Coronavirus-claims-new-life-in-Saudi-Arabia.html
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