Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Emerging and Future Challenges for
Gulf states
Fatemeh Keshavarzi1⃰, 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