The Health Ministry said that Saudi Arabia six people died of Corona virus that causes respiratory syndrome in the Middle East (MERS) in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of those who have their lethality of the disease since it appeared in the kingdom in 2012, to 139.

It also succumbed to the disease in this period 480 people. The Saudi Ministry of Health said in a statement issued Saturday that the list of those who died of the disease yesterday included three women aged 22, 26 and 35 years of Riyadh, and a woman at the age of 68 years and a man in the 78-year-old from the city and a man in his seventies from Jeddah. The ministry had announced Friday the deaths of three men aged 94, 51 and 42-year-old grandmother from the same disease in addition to the men in the seventy-fourth of Taif, a woman and two men from Riyadh. The syndrome is caused by a virus Corona is more dangerous than SARS syndrome rampant in East Asian countries in 2003, which caused the death of almost 800 people.

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