Patient-to-nurse spread of SARS-like virus reportedTwo health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first evidence of such transmission within More… |
Bahrain to discuss SARS action with WHOBahrain’s Health Ministry officials will travel to Geneva next week to discuss how to combat the spread of a deadly SARS-like virus that has put the kingdom on high alert. Fifteen people have already died of the novel corona More… |
Bahrain on SARS-alert after 15 Saudi deathsHealth workers in Bahrain have been briefed on emergency procedures as the deadly SARS-like novel coronavirus caused the death of 15 people in Saudi Arabia, with at least nine in the kingdom’s Eastern Province. No suspected More… |
Four new cases of SARS-like virus in SaudiSaudi Arabia has confirmed four new cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus in its Eastern Province, state media reported late on Monday, citing the health ministry. More… |
Two more die of SARS-like virus in SaudiTwo more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia, the deputy health minister for public health said More… |
New virus ‘can probably pass person to person’The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday it appeared likely that the novel coronavirus, which has killed 18 people in the Middle East and Europe, could be passed between people in close contact. The coronavirus is from t More… |
Two ill after contact with French SARS victimTwo people who had contact with a Frenchman who is seriously ill with the new SARS-like coronavirus have fallen sick and been admitted to hospital, health officials in northern France said. One is a patient who shared a ward with More… |
WHO team heads to virus-hit Saudi hospitalWorld Health Organization (WHO) experts and local officials will visit a Saudi hospital where the SARS-like coronavirus has spread, killing seven people, said the UN agency. France reported its first case on Wednesday in a 65-year More… |
13 cases of SARS-like virus in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has 13 cases of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf, has killed seven people in the kingdom and spread as far as Britain and France, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on W More… |
Bahrain on high SARS alert after Saudi deathsBahrain is on high alert following the outbreak of a SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia, a report said. The novel coronavirus (NCoV) has so-far killed six people there and two others are in intensive care, according to the report in More… |








