Via Saudi Gazette.com: MoH detects rare patten of coronavirus. This adds very little to the report just below, but it does seem to say that a "Gulf citizen" (not a Saudi) in Britain is one of the three cases. Excerpt:
The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced Sunday that a rare pattern of the coronavirus, a known seasonal influenza virus, has been detected with the acceleration of climate changes and the advent of Haj and Umrah seasons.
In a statement, the ministry said that two Saudis — one at a hospital in Jeddah — and another Gulf citizen in Britain were recently diagnosed with the said virus. Two of them died and the third is still under treatment.
The MoH said that most people afflicted with the virus recover after simple treatment, although "in very rare cases and in a rare pattern of this virus, complications occur to the respiratory system and kidneys, which may lead to death, especially in elderly people and those with chronic cardiac illnesses and immune deficiency," the statement said.It sounds as if the Gulf citizen in Britain has died, but the story isn't very clear; nor is the Saudi Health Ministry's original report, which seems to say one of the Saudis was also diagnosed in Britain.
