Department of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Muscat Governorate, Oman.
Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Muscat Governorate, Oman.
F1000Res. 2024 May 29;12:1448. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.142541.3. eCollection 2023.
Twenty-two Arab countries share a common language, history, and culture. Nevertheless, governmental policies, healthcare systems, and resources differ from one Arab country to another. We have been following Coronavirus (COVID-19) from the beginning in each Arab country. In the present study, we aimed to assess the prevalence of COVID-19 in the Arab world and to compare these findings with other significantly affected countries.
Websites of the World Health Organization, World COVID-vaccinations tracker, Worldometer, and Ministries of Health were used to extract COVID-19 data in all Arab countries between the period January 2020 to December 2022.
All Arab countries had 14,218,042 total confirmed COVID-19 cases, 13,384,924 total recovered cases and 173,544 total related deaths. The trend demonstrated that the third quarter of 2021 recorded the highest death toll and the first quarter of 2022 recorded the highest number of confirmed and recovered cases. Compared to the top 15 affected countries, the Arab world ranked last as it had the lowest overall incidence per million population (PMP) of 31,609. The data on total deaths PMP showed that India had the lowest number of deaths with only 377 cases followed by the Arab world with 386 cases.
Although the number of confirmed, death, and recovered cases of COVID-19 have greatly reduced in the last quarter of 2022 in most Arab countries, many Arab countries still need to re-campaign about COVID-19 vaccines and raise awareness programs about boosters. COVID-19 has had a relatively smaller impact on Arab countries than on other countries that have been significantly affected.
二十二个阿拉伯国家拥有共同的语言、历史和文化。然而，政府政策、医疗保健系统和资源在各个阿拉伯国家之间存在差异。我们一直在关注每个阿拉伯国家的冠状病毒（COVID-19）疫情。在本研究中，我们旨在评估 COVID-19 在阿拉伯世界的流行情况，并将这些发现与其他受影响严重的国家进行比较。
我们使用世界卫生组织、世界 COVID-19 疫苗接种追踪器、世界实时统计数据和各国卫生部的网站，提取 2020 年 1 月至 2022 年 12 月期间所有阿拉伯国家的 COVID-19 数据。
所有阿拉伯国家共有 14218042 例确诊 COVID-19 病例，13384924 例治愈病例和 173544 例相关死亡病例。趋势表明，2021 年第三季度记录的死亡人数最高，2022 年第一季度记录的确诊和治愈病例数最高。与前 15 个受影响国家相比，阿拉伯世界的排名最后，因为其每百万人的总发病率（PMP）最低，为 31609。总死亡 PMP 的数据显示，印度的死亡人数最少，仅有 377 例，其次是阿拉伯世界，有 386 例。
尽管 2022 年最后一个季度大多数阿拉伯国家的 COVID-19 确诊、死亡和治愈病例数大幅减少，但许多阿拉伯国家仍需要重新开展 COVID-19 疫苗宣传活动，并提高加强针意识。与其他受影响严重的国家相比，COVID-19 对阿拉伯国家的影响相对较小。
