JEDDAH — The Ministry of Health has announced four more deaths from the MERS coronavirus and 18 new infections, which has now killed at least 121 people in the Kingdom. The World Health Organization (WHO) after a five-day mission to Jeddah pinpointed breaches in its “recommended infection prevention and control measures” as being partly responsible for an increase in infections in the city. Two of the latest deaths reported late Wednesday — of a 65-year-old woman suffering from several illnesses and a 45-year-old woman — were in Riyadh. Both died on Tuesday. In Jeddah, a 70-year-old woman died on Monday and a 60-year-old man died on Tuesday. Among the 18 people newly infected is a 10-year-old boy who was taken to a government hospital in Jeddah following an accident on April 29. After he was discharged from the hospital on May 2, MERS symptoms began to appear and he was rushed to intensive care. The ministry confirmed one case of infection in the summer resort of Taif. In Madinah, the police are searching for a man who escaped from the hospital after he was diagnosed with the virus infection.
