Saudi Arabia Health Ministry announced Thursday the recording of four new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) known as coronavirus, which led to the death of two people and raises death total to 340.
Medical tests showed that four patients worked as medical staff and they were infected by Coronavirus while treating infected patients at Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Hospital in Riyadh last month, the ministry in a statement.
Since 2012, the number of reported cases of the Coronavirus has reached 796 cases, among them 340 fatalities.