Acta Scientific Microbiology (ISSN: 2581-3226)

Review Article Volume 5 Issue 1

COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Rehab M A El-Desoukey1a,2*, Fawziah M Albarakaty1b, Nabwa M2, Ebtesam S2, Abeer M2, Yousra A2, Wadha M2, Mead Gh2, Alanoud S2 and Jawaher H2

1aAssociate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

1bAssistant professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Science,Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

2Biology Department, Faculty of Science and humanities in Al Quwai’iyah, Shaqraa University, Saudi Arabia

*Corresponding Author: Rehab M A El-Desoukey, E-mail: rehab.eldesoukey@gmail.com

Received: November 18, 2021; Published: December 22, 2021

Abstract

Corona virus COVID-19 is an epidemic whose devastating results had been felt in all corners of the world and via all humanity of something age, gender, monetary and social popularity from the start of January 2020 and the intensity increasing day-by way of-day. The patients that had symptoms had been remoted at the same time as watching for outcomes. In a few international locations, self-isolation changed into encouraged even as in others, humans needed to be installed quarantine facilities to cut down the unfold chain at once. Different nations identified quarantine facilities in which individuals have been quarantined for 14 days upon which they would be examined. A philanthropist Bill gates, the Microsoft billionaire, committed himself to donating assets for growing a vaccine. Research centers directed their attention to organising a treatment or a vaccine for the killer virus. Many governments inside the global carried out a partial or full lockdown guided with the aid of the rate of contamination and death. China became the first to call for a complete lockdown because it struggled with the new pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected each side of life; social, financial and mental. This has located a lot of strain on governments and people. The financial popularity of many nations and people has been adversely affected and might take a long time earlier than recuperation. This evaluate article aimed to present a wide statistics about the COVID-19 in entire global and awareness on this information related to the ailment in Saudi Arabia.

 

Keywords: Covid 19; Saudi Arabia; Vaccines; Impact; Education; Pathogenesis; Hajj; Umrah; Prevention; Control

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Citation

Citation: Rehab M A El-Desoukey., et al. “COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia". Acta Scientific Microbiology 5.1 (2022): 33-47.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Rehab M A El-Desoukey., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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