New MERS virus case registered in Jordan, patient critical

AMMAN — The Kingdom has registered a new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus-related infection, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

A Jordanian in his sixties, who works in Saudi Arabia and who recently entered the Kingdom, was diagnosed with the virus and is receiving treatment at a private hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, Bashir Qaseer, head of the Health Ministry’s primary health directorate, said.

Mohammad Abdallat, director of the ministry’s communicable diseases control department, said 13 coronavirus-related infections have been recorded in Jordan so far, including two in 2012 and 10 in 2014, besides the case announced Tuesday.