Riyadh: A Saudi national, aged 68 years, died after contracting the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
He was admitted to the Al-Kharj government-run hospital where he died due to health complications.
A forty-five-year-old migrant worker living in Saudi Arabia has also been diagnosed with the viral disease.
The Ministry of Health announced that no MERS-Cov patients had recovered over the past 24 hours.