Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was transported from China to Iran via passengers. The virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking and contact with infected surfaces. Due to high transmissibility in places such as clinics, medical offices, buse...
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| author | Mohammad Asgharzadeh Behroz Mahdavi Poor Vahid Asgharzadeh Mahya Pourostadi Hossein Samadi Kafil Ali Vegari Zahra Taghinejad Adel Bairamy Jalil Rashedi |
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| description | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was transported from China to Iran via passengers. The virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking and contact with infected surfaces. Due to high transmissibility in places such as clinics, medical offices, buses and offices where there are large crowds, it spread rapidly in Iran and caused the mortality of a significant number of people, especially the elderly with underlying disease. Preventing travel and gatherings, as well as applying house quarantine in Apr 2020, reduced COVID-19 somewhat but then due to lack of attention to social distancing, reducing the use of masks by the people and inappropriate decisions by the national committee on combating coronavirus (NCCC), including reducing the working hours of public offices and shops, reducing the staff of government offices, monopoly on the distribution of essential materials and supplies, the presence of overcrowding in clinics of medical centers, hospitals, and private clinics caused the decline of the disease in the country to decrease. Measures can be taken to prevent the spread of the virus as much as possible, including: rapid detection of infected people, their isolation, contact tracing, quarantine of people over 65 and under 15, protection of the elderly, prevention of gatherings, forcing the use of protective equipment in possible gatherings, and electronicizing public services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ccd952010562462f838052ca997ff2a82022-12-21T19:33:20ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Public Health2251-60852251-60932021-07-0150710.18502/ijph.v50i7.6616Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran?Mohammad Asgharzadeh0Behroz Mahdavi Poor1Vahid Asgharzadeh2Mahya Pourostadi3Hossein Samadi Kafil4Ali Vegari5Zahra Taghinejad6Adel Bairamy7Jalil Rashedi8Biotechnology Research Center, Faculty of Paramedicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranDepartment of Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Paramedicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranStudent Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranMedical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranDepartment of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, IranHematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranValiasr Tabriz Seminary, Tabriz, IranTuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was transported from China to Iran via passengers. The virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking and contact with infected surfaces. Due to high transmissibility in places such as clinics, medical offices, buses and offices where there are large crowds, it spread rapidly in Iran and caused the mortality of a significant number of people, especially the elderly with underlying disease. Preventing travel and gatherings, as well as applying house quarantine in Apr 2020, reduced COVID-19 somewhat but then due to lack of attention to social distancing, reducing the use of masks by the people and inappropriate decisions by the national committee on combating coronavirus (NCCC), including reducing the working hours of public offices and shops, reducing the staff of government offices, monopoly on the distribution of essential materials and supplies, the presence of overcrowding in clinics of medical centers, hospitals, and private clinics caused the decline of the disease in the country to decrease. Measures can be taken to prevent the spread of the virus as much as possible, including: rapid detection of infected people, their isolation, contact tracing, quarantine of people over 65 and under 15, protection of the elderly, prevention of gatherings, forcing the use of protective equipment in possible gatherings, and electronicizing public services.https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/24212SARS-CoV-2COVID-19TransmissionCrowdingIsolationQuarantine |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Asgharzadeh Behroz Mahdavi Poor Vahid Asgharzadeh Mahya Pourostadi Hossein Samadi Kafil Ali Vegari Zahra Taghinejad Adel Bairamy Jalil Rashedi Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? Iranian Journal of Public Health SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Transmission Crowding Isolation Quarantine |
| title | Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? |
| title_full | Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? |
| title_fullStr | Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? |
| title_short | Why the COVID-19 Is Not Significantly Reduced in Iran? |
| title_sort | why the covid 19 is not significantly reduced in iran |
| topic | SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Transmission Crowding Isolation Quarantine |
| url | https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/24212 |
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