The COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran; The First Patient with a Definite Diagnosis
Mohammadreza Ghadir, Ali Ebrazeh, Javad Khodadadi, Masumeh Zamanlu, Saeed Shams, Maryam Nasiri, Alireza Koohpaei, Mohammad Abbasinia, Ehsan Sharifipour, Samad EJ Golzari
Abstract
The novel coronavirus, formerly named as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) caused a rapidly spreading epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan, China and thereafter, progressed globally to form a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in numerous countries; and now confirmed cases are reported from several provinces of Iran. Now various medical centers, clinicians and researchers around the world share their data and experiences about COVID-19 in order to participate in the global attempt of controlling the pandemic. The current report investigates the clinical presentations and paraclinical findings of the first confirmed cases and mortalities in the initiation of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran.