18 June 2015 (07:46 UTC-07 Tango 01)/28 Kordad 1394/01 Ramadan 1436/03 Ren-Wu (5th month) 4713

Thailand’s Public Health Ministry reports a 75 years old man is positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.  He is the first known case of MERS in Thailand.  59 people are under “observation”.

Confirmed number of MERS cases in Republic of Korea (RoK) now at 165. All are connected to hospitals or ambulance services. Deaths now at 23.

The Samsung Hospital in Seoul has locked down 3-hundred healthcare workers, now suspected of being infected!  Samsung administrators are begging other hospitals to take their patients, but local news reports say other hospitals are refusing that request!

Despite the increasing number of cases and deaths, the UN World Health Organization is urging the RoK government to re-open the approximately 2-thousand 9-hundred schools that were shutdown at the beginning of the outbreak.

United Arab Emirates reports a second confirmed case of MERS, in the past week.  Interestingly doctors say the latest patient has never been in contact with anybody infected with the virus.

Two new cases reported in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   Interestingly one of the new patients, a 73 years old man, has never contacted anybody infected with MERS, and he has not had recent contact with camels, which are suspected as being the original carriers of the virus. He is in critical condition.

6-thousand+ people now under Medical Martial law!