RIYADH: MERS coronavirus infections have soared in Saudi Arabia ahead of the hajj pilgrimage, forcing the closure of a major hospital’s emergency ward in Riyadh and killing three people, officials and the press said.
The Saudi Gazette said Thursday authorities shut the emergency ward at the King Abdulaziz Medical City, one of the capital’s largest hospitals, “after at least 46 people, including hospital staff” contracted the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
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