Guangzhou, Ramadan 9, 1436, Jun 26, 2015, SPA -- China's first confirmed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patient was discharged from hospital and returned to the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Friday, the health and family planning commission of Guangdong Province said. The 44-year-old Korean man tested positive for MERS in Guangdong on May 29. The man has had no fever for more than 10 days, and has tested negative for MERS twice, Xinhua reported. MERS is a respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus. There is no vaccine or treatment for the disease, which has a fatality rate of about 40 percent. --SPA 13:07 LOCAL TIME 10:07 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w