Iran :
On 19 February 2020 Iran announced that SARS-COVID 19 had arrived in the country for the first time by confirmed cases of infection in Qom and they reported that the virus may have been brought to the country by a merchant from Qom he had already traveled to china.
The government of Iran planned for the following three steps to prevent the spread of the virus: 1- Examination of incoming passengers from China and transferring suspicious cases to designated hospitals; 2- Returning the Iranian students residing in China and quarantining them for two weeks; 3- Allocation of specific funds for provision of necessary resources, i.e. personnel, medicines, equipment, etc.
To prevent and control the spreading of the infection the government urgently decided to cancel public gathering such as Friday prayers, they closed universities, closed schools, shopping centres, bazaars, and holy shrines, and banned festival celebrations.
Initially they didn’t quarantine entire cities and areas, howler the Government warned about continued heavy traffic between cities, notably at the time of Nowruz ceremony ( new year for many countries in the area), but still the number of cases increase dramatically because of that they later announced a ban on travel between cities. The restrictions were gradually eased starting in April. The number of new cases fell to a low on 2 May, but increased again in May as restrictions were eased, with a new peak reported on 4 June (3,574 cases just for one day) (world meter, 2020). The Iranian health minister says Iran has begun extensive work on vaccines related to the COVID-19 virus, and people will soon hear good news in this regard. two prominent teams at knowledge-based companies are working in that domain.
“We have made good progress, but it is still too early to unveil our work. In the coming days, good news will be announced about a vaccine for coronavirus,” said the minister. Meanwhile, he underlined that no definitive vaccine has been developed for the disease yet.
“So far, no specific drug has been discovered for COVID-19, and the world is working on finding a vaccine (IRAN FR NT PAGE).
According to the national guideline, Iran used, the main treatment medications include Oseltamivir (100%) (75mg twice daily) for all of the patient as a recommended medication, other medications like hydroxychloroquine used by average 94% (200mg twice daily / 400 mg single dose when combined administration with Lopinavir-Ritonavir). lopinavir/ritonavir (60%), (400 mg Lopinavir- 100 mg Ritonavir twice daily) and ribavirin (12%) also administrated by (1200 mg twice daily), Intravenous antibiotics were also used, supplementary oxygen therapy for all patients based on their condition, and the other medicine that the patients received like the following we scripted respectively Systemic glucocorticoids ,Losartan, ACE inhibitor, Levofloxacin, Vancomycin, Azithromycin, Ceftriaxone, Piperacillin-tazobactam, Meropenem, Imipenem, Ciprofloxacin. Hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir (in younger age group) can be potential treatment options(Ashraf, Shokouhi et al. 2020, Motlagh, Yamrali et al. 2020) .