"In the world, September 2012 to date, which has been informed of a total of 58 confirmed cases of infection by the seas - VOC, with 33 deaths," Chaib told journalists.
Until last month, the disease was known simply as a novel coronavirus, before being renamed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, or seas - VOC, as launched in this region.
Have now been 44 confirmed cases in Saudi Arabia, 28 of them fatal, according to who figures.
THAT connects by countries in cases of infection, rather than death, and its Saudi toll includes a deceased in Britain.
A person has died in France after being infected in Dubai, and one patient died in Munich, Germany, that has been transferred there after the first treaty in Abu Dhabi.
There were also two cases in Jordan, two of them fatal. Qatar saw two, with these patients in Britain and Germany.
Two patients contracted the disease in Britain of a person who had been in the Middle East, which one died.
Tunisia saw two non-fatal cases and the Italy two - one of them caught the virus in Jordan and gave it to a contact in Italy.
France has recorded an infection, a man who is believed to have caught the disease while sharing a hospital room with the deceased patient, who had been in Dubai.
The virus is a member of the coronavirus family, which includes the pathogen that causes severe acute respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
SARS triggered a worldwide in 2003 after panic that it has jumped to humans, to animals in Asia and killed 800 people.
As SARS, seas appears to cause a lung infection, patients with a temperature, cough and struggling to breathe. But it differs in that it also causes rapid renal failure.
Health authorities were concerned about the high proportion of deaths compared to the case, warning that seas could trigger a new crisis if it were to mutate into a form that spreads more easily.
Source-AFP
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