id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-323200-xnr02xq3 Mansuri, Farah M.A. Situation analysis and an insight into assessment of pandemic COVID-19 2020-04-08 .txt text/plain 1303 77 54 The world is seeing a catastrophic pandemic of SARS-CoV2 or of the disease COVID-19, in first quarter of 21st century with the emergence of novel corona virus. 1,2 Regional statistics of World health organization depicts that Eastern Mediterranean region (EMRO) stands fourth in the rank of prevalence of confirmed cases of COVID-19 after Europe, Americas and Western pacific, with a total number of 66 thousand cases and 3592 deaths. 4 The other indicator besides transmission rate, is severity of the pandemic, that can be studied by ratio of cases to hospitalization, ratio of deaths to hospitalization and ratio of Intensive care Unit admissions to total admissions. This disparity in fatality and pandemic severity index may be due to several factors such as higher virulence of virus and availability of better preventive or therapeutic health care services etc. ./cache/cord-323200-xnr02xq3.txt ./txt/cord-323200-xnr02xq3.txt