LAGOS State Government, yesterday, alerted its indigenes traveling to other parts of the world with confirmed cases of coronavirus infections – a severe, life-threatening respiratory disease – to take adequate precautions to protect themselves from the infection.
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The coronavirus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV, is currently ravaging countries in the Middle East and the World Health Organisatiion, WHO, has just been informed of two additional laboratory-confirmed cases in Saudi Arabia.
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Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 90 laboratory confirmed cases of the infection resulting in 45 deaths.
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This is coming on the heels of earlier warning published in the journals, by infectious disease physicians, at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, on the possible international spread of the virus during the forthcoming mass gatherings in Saudi Arabia.