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 the 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 gatherings such as Friday prayers,
they closed universities, closed schools, shopping centers, 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 (the 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).