“…The case-fatality in our study was 35.3% which is consistent with other studies [4,8,11,14,19,22] and the findings of which vary from 32% to 39%. In contrast to our finding, both lower (15% to 27%) [3,12,15,16,18,23,24] and higher (55% to 72.7%) [9,10,13,17,21] casefatalities were observed.…”