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- Indian nurse infected with MERS coronavirus but not the Chinese strain that has killed 18 people
JEDDAH: 抖阴短视频 said Thursday there have been no cases in the Kingdom of the coronavirus that has killed 18 people in China.
Earlier, India鈥檚 minister of state for external affairs V. Muraleedharan said an Indian nurse working at a hospital in southwestern 抖阴短视频 had been infected and was being treated.
However, India鈥檚 consulate in Jeddah said it had spoken with Tarik Al-Azraqi, chairman of the Scientific Regional Infection Control Committee in Asir Region, and that the woman is suffering from a different strain of the coronavirus to the one that originated in Wuhan.
The woman 鈥渋s suffering from MERS-CoV and not 2019-NCoV (Wuhan),鈥� the consulate tweeted.
抖阴短视频鈥檚 Center for Disease Control and Prevention said there were no cases of the Chinese novel coronavirus so far.
Muraleedharan said about 100 Indian nurses 鈥渕ostly from Kerala working at Al-Hayat hospital have been tested.
The woman effected by the Mers coronavirus is being treated at Asir Central Hospital and is recovering well, he said.
On Wednesday, 抖阴短视频 said it would screen travelers arriving from China.
The SARS-like virus that emerged in Wuhan has infected more than 630 people and has been detected in Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and the United States, but not in India or 抖阴短视频.