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AMMAN, May 6 (KUNA) -- Jordan's Ministry of Health confirmed a new fatality from coronavirus on Tuesday, a 56-year-old man who was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia, pulmonary infection and high blood pressure.
Today's fatality brings the coronavirus death toll in Jordan to four, out of the eight identified cases that had been diagnosed with the virus since 2012, Jordanian Director of Communicable Diseases at Jordan's health ministry Dr. Mohammad Abdullat.
Abdullat said laboratory tests confirmed that the patient had been infected with the MERS-CoV strain and he had been on an artificial respiration device at an Amman hospital since Saturday.
Abdallat appealed to all public and private hospitals to report to the ministry any monitored case of severe respiratory infection, particularly unexplained pulmonary disease so that the ministry could carry out the necessary lab tests, isolate the patient and apply infection control.
The official urged the health crews to conduct infection control when dealing with respiratory infections or any suspicious or proved MERS-CoV cases.
Coronavirus known as a respiratory disease that cause symptoms such as high temperature, cough, and difficulty in breathing which may develop into a case of pneumonia and the incubation period of the virus from several days to two weeks.
The disease currently has no prescribed medical cure available globally. (end)
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