Riyadh - MENA
Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry reported on Friday a new case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS).
As many as 355 people have died of the deadly virus out of 822 cases reported since the virus appeared in the country in 2012.
MERS causes coughing, fever and sometimes pneumonia, killing around 40 percent of its victims. The vast majority of confirmed cases worldwide have been found in Saudi Arabia.