AMMAN: A man has died in Jordan after being infected with the MERS virus, the government said on Monday, on the eve of a World Health Organization emergency meeting on the disease.

The latest death brings to five the number of fatalities in Jordan from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus since it first emerged in 2012.

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