DOHA: An expatriate living in Qatar has died of MERS, bringing to four the number of deaths in the Gulf state from the coronavirus, health authorities said on Friday.

The 48-year-old had other preexisting health problems, Qatar’s Supreme Council of Health.

It was the second death reported in Qatar this week. On Tuesday the emirate reported the death of a 61-year-old expatriate. Two other deaths were reported in early September. In addition, a Qatari man died in a London hospital in late June after contracting the virus.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that it has been notified of 155 laboratory-confirmed cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus worldwide so far, including 64 deaths, most of them in Saudi Arabia.