SEOUL: A South Korean man died of complications from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.
The 66-year-old man was diagnosed in June after contracting the virus at the Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul – one of the major epicentres of the disease that swept the country between May and July, Seoul’s health ministry said.
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