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Saudi Arabia says five dead from new SARS-like virus
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/uk-saudi-virus-idUKBRE9410BV20130502(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said five more people have died of a deadly new virus from the same family as SARS, and two other people were in intensive care.
The seven cases were discovered in al-Ahsa governorate in the Eastern Province, the Saudi news agency SPA quoted the Saudi Health Ministry as saying in a statement late on Wednesday.
A Saudi man died in March from the virus.
The novel coronavirus (NCoV) is from the same family of viruses as those that cause common colds and the one that caused the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that first emerged in Asia in 2003.