COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: An Overview

Abstract

BackgroundSaudi Arabia, a prominent Arabian country, has 35. 3 million persons living in 2.2 million square kilometers, undergone serious threats recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the built-in infrastructure and disciplined lifestyle, the country could address this pandemic.AimsThis analysis of COVID-19 cases in Saudi Arabia attempts to assess the situation, explore its global percentage share, percentage of population affected, and local distribution from the beginning of infection until recently, tracing historical developments and changes.Data and MethodsThis analysis made use of data released by the Ministry of Health on a daily basis for a number of parameters. They are compiled on an excel sheet on a daily basis: the dataset has undergone rigorous analysis along with the trends and patterns; proportion to the world statistics and geographic distribution.ResultsCOVID-19 spread rapidly in the country with periodic variations, during June-August, 2020. But, recoveries accelerated in the period, thus bridging the gap of increasing infections. In comparison with the world statistics, the country proportions are lower, while the percentage of population affected is similar. It appears that the intensity varied across all 13 administrative areas.ConclusionCOVID-19 transmission since March 2020 is considered to be widespread, creating excess burden on the public health system, delineated into stages (early infection, rapid spread, declining, stabilizing, and second wave). Control measures are set, stage-wise, without impinging upon normal life but to ensure that the proportion of globally affected persons is lesser than the population share: credit goes to the Ministry of Health. Area-wise spread depends largely on population density and development infrastructure dimensions. Ultimately, the disciplined life in compliance with law and order paved the way for effective program implementation and epidemic control.

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“…As applied to Saudi Arabia, especially in the major cities characterized by modern lifestyles under nuclear families, this situation affected traditional family togetherness and cohesiveness. Nevertheless, the gap between reported and recovered cases has been reduced to a minimum, enabling successful treatment outcomes, albeit with few departures (Salam et al 2022 ).…”

“…The government of Saudi Arabia offers several economic and medical welfare measures to protect the affected families (Ministry of Media 2020 ). These interventions should be continued for a further period, at least until the epidemic disappears, which is until the recovery of all patients, as advocated by Stokes and Patterson ( 2020 ) and Salam et al ( 2022 ).…”

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“…Even though Saudi Arabia topped among the COVID-19 infected countries, various healthcare measures were taken by the Saudi Arabian government. The government has implemented a number of preventative measures in an effort to curb the spread of the sickness, one of which is providing free vaccinations to everyone older than 12 years old 36 .…”

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“…Despite many lockdowns and long-term infection control measures implemented in most countries, the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in China in December 2019, is still spreading [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, both hospital and community infection control efforts have been employed to minimize the risk of infection spread and some safe vaccines have been generated [ 4 ].…”