Jordan reports 7th case of coronavirus MERS

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/...e=Home&GType=1

Jordan reports 7th case of coronavirus

...The patient, who is a healthcare worker, had come in contact with a Saudi patient who had tested positive for coronavirus last week.

//Petra//
1/5/2014 - 02:54:25 PM

[sharon sanders]

Re: Jordan reports 7th case of coronavirus MERS

While this is the 7th case reported by Jordan, it is the 6th case with origin inside Jordan. One case was exported from Saudi Arabia:

Jordan

1) #1 - Woman, 45, disease event date April 2012, hospital health care worker Death

2) #2 - Man, 25, brother of case #1, disease event date April 2012 Death

3) #51 - Man, 45, travel history to Jordan, hospitalized in Italy in good condition

4) #184 - Man, 48, onset date December 31, hospitalized January 9, died January 23 Death

5) #239 - Man, 52, onset March 25, treated in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, hospitalized 2 April in stable condition. Jordan

6) #457 - Patient, who is a healthcare worker, had come in contact of case #333, a Saudi patient who had tested positive for coronavirus last week. - Jordan

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#333 - Man, 25, was hospitalized in Al Jawf Province, Saudi Arabia from April 10 to 15 after suffering from pneumonia, now hospitalized in Jordan - Saudi Arabia

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[tetano]

Re: Jordan reports 7th case of coronavirus MERS

Jordan records two new MERS infections

Two new infections from MERS coronavirus have been detected in Jordan, the health ministry said on Thursday, one a Saudi man and the other a Jordanian medic who was treating him.
AMMAN: Two new infections from MERS coronavirus have been detected in Jordan, the health ministry said on Thursday, one a Saudi man and the other a Jordanian medic who was treating him.

State news agency Petra which carried the report said this brought to seven the total number of people who were diagnosed in Jordan with the disease known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since 2012.

Health ministry official Mohammad Abdallat told Petra that the Saudi man aged 25 was being treated in a private Amman hospital.

"The Jordanian medic, 28 got infected while he was treating the Saudi patient. He is in a stable condition," Abdallat, who heads the ministry's communicable disease unit, said without elaborating.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/health/jordan-records-two-new/1092048.html

[Shiloh]

Re: Jordan reports 7th case of coronavirus MERS

Source: http://www.arabnews.com/news/564951


2-pronged strategy to wipe out MERS
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Published ? Saturday 3 May 2014
Last update 3 May 2014 1:25 am

...Mohammad Al-Balawi, director of the information department in the Saudi embassy in Jordan, confirmed that a Saudi citizen who came to Jordan for medical treatment is inflicted with the corona virus.
He said the embassy received a call a few days ago about the presence of a Saudi patient inflicted with MERS in Al-Zaytoun hospital in Zerqa, north of Jordan.
As soon as the embassy received the call it called a number of well known hospitals in Jordan to explore the possibility of moving the patient to one of them.
These hospitals refrained from taking the patient because they have no vacant isolation rooms, said Al-Balawi said.
He said the embassy called the Jordanian Ministry of Health, which expressed its willingness to cooperate with the embassy and treat the patient in Prince Hamza hospital, which is equipped to receive such cases...