JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The Health Ministry announced on Saturday (early Sunday in Manila) seven new deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), taking the country’s death toll to 94.

A statement said that 24 new cases of MERS were detected in the Kingdom, bringing the total to 323 since the virus first emerged there in September 2012.

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