WHO: 2 people in Jordan died from SARS-like coronavirus
GENEVA - Two people who died in Jordan in April have been found to have been infected with the new virus from the same family as SARS which sparked a global alert in September, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.The coronavirus, previously unknown in humans, has now been confirmed in a total of nine people in three countries in the Middle East region, including a Saudi who had severe acute respiratory illness last month, the United Nations agency said.But the two fatal cases in Jordan, confirmed in samples just retested by a WHO collaborating laboratory in Egypt, do not change WHO@@@s assessment that the virus does not appear to spread easily between people, if at all, spokesman Gregory Hartl said."These Jordan cases don@@@t change our risk assessment at the moment. We haven@@@t seen any new pattern. These are old cases," Hartl told Reuters.ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
