Bangladeshi woman dies of MERS

A Bangladeshi woman is among the latest five victims of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia, the BBC reports.
It quotes a Saudi government statement as saying that the latest five victims of the coronavirus in the kingdom were two Saudi nationals, two elderly Palestinians and a Bangladeshi woman in her 40s. But the woman's identity has not been revealed so far.
The five new deaths from the MERS coronavirus take the country's death toll in the disease to 92 so far.
It also raises the spectre of the disease travelling back to other countries such as Bangladesh through immigrants going back home.
The fear is heightened as Egypt recorded its first case, in a 27-year-old man who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia.
Egypt's health ministry said the man diagnosed there with MERS was from the Nile Delta and had been living in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
He is being treated for pneumonia at a Cairo hospital and is in a stable condition, the ministry added.
Saudi officials said 14 new cases had been detected in the kingdom, bringing the total to 313 since the virus first emerged there 18 months ago, the BBC reports.
MERS causes symptoms including fever, pneumonia and kidney failure.
Last Monday, Saudi health minister Abdullah al-Rabiah was sacked without explanation, as the MERS death toll climbed.
On Friday, a spokesman for the World Health Organization in Geneva said it was "concerned" about the rising numbers of MERS cases in Saudi Arabia.
It called for a speedy scientific breakthrough as research continues into the virus and its route of infection.