Medical Science
Volume 25, Issue 116, October 2021
Epidemiological analysis of coronavirus disease 2019 in Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Garout1, Reda Goweda1,2, Magda Abdelwadood3, Nagham Abdul Rahman4, Mariah Alahmadi5♦, Reema Abuyabis5, Raha Bogari5, Kawlah Samarin5, Sarah Filimban5, Ahmed Faisal6
1Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Umm AlQura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal
University, Egypt
3Microbiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of medicine, Ain
Shams University, Egypt
4Head of infection prevention and control department in public health,
MOH, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
5Medical student, college of medicine, Umm Al-Qura University,
Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
6Department of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine,
Suez Canal University, Egypt
♦Corresponding author
Medical student, college of medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was recognized as the reason of a group of respiratory infections in Wuhan, China. It spread quickly, leading to an epidemic followed by a worldwide pandemic. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive observational study depends on the daily report released by ministry of health (MOH) in Saudi Arabia regarding COVID-19 including: total number of new cases, new cases in each city, recovery cases and mortalities. This study analyzed the situation of COVID-19 from March 2nd, 2020, to May 7th, 2020. Results: First case was reported on 2nd of March 2020; the curve of new cases had an abrupt marked increase in the middle of April due to mass testing. As of 7th of May 2020, Saudi Arabia reported 33731 cases with incidence rate of (96.88/100000) and most of the new cases were reported in Makkah 7261 (21.5%). Conclusions: COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading virus. Saudi Arabia recorded the largest number of cases reported in a single Arab country. Mass testing has a significant increase of reporting new, recovery and death cases.
Keywords: Epidemiological, analysis, COVID 19, Saudi Arabia
Medical Science, 2021, 25(116), 2588-2594
