Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Emerging and Future Challenges for Gulf states

Fatemeh Keshavarzi^1⃰, Haseeb Mohammed Ali Salih², Soran Othman Ahmed², Aram Noori Yara²

¹Department of Biology, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

²Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

* Corresponding author:

Fatemeh Keshavarzi, Pasdaran Ave., Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran, Tel.: +98 918370 4918, Fax: +98 8733288677, gol.keshavarzi@gmail.com

Abstract A Wuhan province, of China, become a first region for the novel of coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19), it gradually has become a major challenge for public health in most of the countries all over the world. The World Health Organization revealed that the International concerns over the novel coronavirus outbreaks have led to the formation of a public health emergency. On February 26, 2020, the COVID-19 outbreaks appeared in more than 35 countries around the world which include many of the Gulf countries notably Iran have reported COVID-19 cases respectively, and the infectious cases with a higher laboratory-confirmed and became serious as well as more deaths were reported. In this research, we elucidated the infectious pandemic significantly in all Gulf countries, additionally to investigate the competition between various of ABO blood groups which one is more susceptible than others and high risk for others with the second disease. The effects of the disease have led to the formation of control protocol centers around the world as soon as possible. According to this research and relevant guidelines to collect the necessary information and introduces essential knowledge about COVID-19 as well as prevention and treatment are the most important task in the Gulf States.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Gulf countries, MERS