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COVID-19 is the second coronavirus that affects the Middle East, following the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. UAE was the first Middle Eastern country to say a case, following the COVID-19 happening in China.
July 16, 2020. The Middle East and Central Asia countries acted quickly and decisively in response to COVID-19. Despite their efforts, the pandemic has inflicted heavy economic damage on the region. Growth projections have been revised down since the April 2020 Regional Economic Outlook, the IMF says in its latest update to the report.
Here, we assess the ability of NTL to track activity changes from COVID-19 physical distancing measures across 584 urban areas in 19 countries in the Middle East.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020; however, the first reports of its occurrence in the Middle East and north Africa (MENA) came from Iran in late February.
COVID-19 is the fourth crisis to have hit the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the decade following the Arab uprisings, the 2014-16 oil price declines, and the 2019 resurgence of protests. It differs from the other crises because of its broad impacts and its distributional consequences.
In the Middle East, some countries have done a commendable job of releasing their COVID-19 data, including Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and others. Among the countries that have not released reliable data—whether intentionally or due to low testing capacity—are Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
Middle Eastern countries include 18 countries (13 out of 18) are part of the Arab world with population of 371 million. As of this writing, no definitive treatment or vaccination has been established. On March 11, 2020, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a global pandemic. [ 1] .
