EDIS Number: BH-20140314-43027-SAU
Date / time: 14/03/2014 13:26:54 [UTC]
Event: Biological Hazard
Area: Middle-East
Country: Saudi Arabia
State/County: Provinces of Riyadh, Tabuk and Makkah
Location: [Riyadh, Tabuk and Riyadh]
Number of Deads: 284 person(s)
Number of Injured: N/A
Number of Infected: 700 person(s)
Number of Missing: N/A
Number of Affected: N/A
Number of Evacuated: N/A
Damage level: N/A
Description:
Saudi Arabia says a man has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 63 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak. The health ministry said on Friday that the latest victim, a 19-year-old, died in the city of al-Kharj, southeast of Riyadh, according to a report from the Associated Press news agency. Two of his sisters are in hospital on suspicion they have been infected with the virus. The new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.
Event updates:
Situation Update No. 16 on 2014-07-15 at 03:12:44.
Situation Update No. 15 on 2014-06-28 at 11:55:04.
Situation Update No. 14 on 2014-06-27 at 02:55:31.
Situation Update No. 13 on 2014-06-17 at 13:43:56.
Situation Update No. 12 on 2014-06-07 at 05:05:39.
Situation Update No. 11 on 2014-06-05 at 18:50:26.
Situation Update No. 10 on 2014-06-04 at 03:39:50.
Situation Update No. 9 on 2014-05-30 at 05:14:05.
Situation Update No. 8 on 2014-05-17 at 12:15:37.
Situation Update No. 7 on 2014-05-14 at 13:45:49.
Situation Update No. 6 on 2014-05-06 at 03:26:56.
Situation Update No. 5 on 2014-05-02 at 11:07:45.
Situation Update No. 4 on 2014-04-29 at 03:16:07.
Situation Update No. 3 on 2014-04-26 at 13:51:06.
Situation Update No. 2 on 2014-04-11 at 03:27:05.
Situation Update No. 1 on 2014-04-10 at 03:02:12.
