MADRID: Spain said on Wednesday that a woman who just returned from Saudi Arabia has been infected by the MERS coronavirus in the country’s first case of the deadly disease.

The patient, who was born in Morocco but lives in Spain, is receiving treatment at a Madrid hospital and is in a “stable” condition, the health ministry said in a statement.

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