Deputy health minister sacked as #Saudi_Arabia announces 113 unreported #MERS cases
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Saudi Arabia’s health minister has sacked one of his deputies as an updated death toll by the MERS coronavirus based on previously unrecorded cases reached 282, the ministry said Tuesday. No reasons were given for the dismissal of deputy minister Ziad Memish, but the ministry, in a separate statement Tuesday, announced that it had identified an additional 113 confirmed cases of MERS that had not been previously recorded, bringing the total to 688. A review of health data also showed that the death toll from the virus stood at 282, not 190, as the ministry had previously reported. read more