WHO is part of the UN Experts from the World Health Organisation will visit a Saudi Arabian hospital, following the spread of the Sars-like coronavirus which killed seven people. On Monday, France reported its first case, found d in a 65-year-old Frenchman who had recently returned from Dubai with the virus. Cases have also been detected in the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Britain and Germany.
The total number of resultant deaths has reached 18 out of 31 known cases worldwide.
Coronavirus is from the same viral family as the original one that set-off the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome that swept the world from Asia in 2003, killing 775 people.
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