Coronavirus: An Emerging Public Health Issue in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

摘要

In September 2012, a novel Coronavirus was isolated almost simultaneously from a patient with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia, and a patient from Qatar in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the United Kingdom. During the subsequent year, another 136 cases of MERS-CoV including 58 deaths were confirmed from patients hospitalized in 10 countries in Europe and the Middle East.