A Bangladeshi woman has died of Mers in Saudia Arabia. Her identity has not been known so far.
She is one of latest five victims in the country. The five new deaths from the Mers coronavirus take the country's death toll in the disease to 92 so far.
Quoting a Saudi government statement, BBC reported that the latest five victims of the coronavirus in the kingdom were two Saudi nationals, two elderly Palestinians and a Bangladeshi woman. It also raises the spectre of the disease traveling 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 - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - 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.