Hijawi, B. Abdallat, M. Sayaydeh, A. Alqasrawi, S. Haddadin, A. Jaarour, N. El Sheikh, S. Alsanouri, T. 2013 In April 2012, an outbreak of acute respiratory illness occurred in a public hospital in Zarqa city, in Jordan 8 health care workers were among the 11 people affected, 1 of who later died. The cause of the outbreak was unknown at the time and an epidemiological investigation including laboratory testing carried out immediately after the outbreak was inconclusive. Following the discovery of novel coronavirus infection nCoV in the Arabian peninsula in September 2012, stored respiratory and serum samples of patients from this outbreak were retested ...