| Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was transported from China to Iran via passengers. The virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking and contact with infected surfaces. Due to high transmissibility in places such as clinics, medical offices, buses and offices where there are
large crowds, it spread rapidly in Iran and caused the mortality of a significant number of people, especially the
elderly with underlying disease. Preventing travel and gatherings, as well as applying house quarantine in Apr
2020, reduced COVID-19 somewhat but then due to lack of attention to social distancing, reducing the use of
masks by the people and inappropriate decisions by the national committee on combating coronavirus (NCCC),
including reducing the working hours of public offices and shops, reducing the staff of government offices, monopoly on the distribution of essential materials and supplies, the presence of overcrowding in clinics of medical
centers, hospitals, and private clinics caused the decline of the disease in the country to decrease. Measures can
be taken to prevent the spread of the virus as much as possible, including: rapid detection of infected people,
their isolation, contact tracing, quarantine of people over 65 and under 15, protection of the elderly, prevention
of gatherings, forcing the use of protective equipment in possible gatherings, and electronicizing public services. |