The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh linked up with the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health to better protect some one million Filipinos in the oil-rich country against the new strain of virus similar with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

In a statement, the embassy cautioned Filipinos once more against the now called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or coronavirus. Symptoms include coughing, fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea and pneumonia.

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