“…A modified drive-through sample collection strategy was established for SARS-COV-2 testing at NIMR. The modalities of the registration and subsequent invitation to the centre have been described in a previous study [ 11 ]. The sociodemographic data (age, sex, place of and residence), travel history, preexisting comorbidities, clinical symptoms, and outcomes of the qualitative RT-PCR results (by Roche Cobas 6800) were extracted and analyzed using SPSS software, version 22.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA).…”