Iranian healthcare system against COVID-19

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1 Viruses are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.1 The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported an unknown pathogen is a cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia that produced an influenza-like syndrome in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China in December 2019. 2 This pathogen was an enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus, a coronavirus that was named 2019-nCov initially then severe acute respiratory syndromerelated coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), leading to the disease called COVID-19.This virus belongs to the family Coronaviridae in the order Nidovirales.3 The clinical presentation of COVID-19 can range from mild to severe symptoms, specifically from fever and dry cough to complications such as severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and sepsis.The consequences of COVID-19 infection patients can be lethal, particularly in patients with underlying diseases, such as cardiac failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and chronic lung disease.4 At the moment, the reproduction number of 2019-nCoV is thought to be 2.68 (95%CI 2.47-2.86),while the reproduction number of seasonal influenza is 1.28.5 So COVID-19 is more contagious than seasonal influenza.At the moment, the mortality of COVID-19 in the world is 6.82% and in Iran it is 6.22%, 6 while the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-1 and Middle East respiratory syndrome