March 23, 2020 Total lab-confirmed cases: 23,049 Total associated deaths: 1,812 Total recovered cases: 8,376 New cases: 1,411 Indicators of screened, infected and death cases Screening (since March 4 till March 22, 2020; 5:30 PM GMT) Value Number of services delivered for COVID-19 39,888,635 Screened cases referred o the physician for their symptoms (%) 0.18 Cases referred to the hospital by physician (%) 4.4 Proportion of eligible cases followed-up for 50 New lab-confirmed cases (in last 72 h) Age mean (standard deviation) 56 (18.5) Age median (inter-quartile range) 56 (45-69) Sex distribution (%) Male 54 Female 46 Cases with at least one co-morbidity (%) 27.8 Cases admitted in ICU* (%) 13.6 Cases with more severe forms of the disease ** 18.1 COVID-19 deaths (in last 72 h) Age mean (standard deviation) 70.1 (12.3) Age median (inter-quartile range) 69 (65-80) Cases over 60 years (%) 83.3 Sex distribution (%) Male 50 Female 50 Cases with at least one co-morbidity (%) 33.3 Cases over 60 years or with at least one co-morbidity (%) 92 * To the total number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. ** Based on available data, we considered patients with death outcome, as well as those admitted to ICU or under mechanical ventilation as more severe cases. The information in this chart is based on hospitalized cases, and outpatients are not included in this calculation. Inclusion of outpatients and asymptomatic cases would decrease the proportion of severe cases. Geographic Distribution of the Number of Suspected Cases Geographic Distribution of the Number of Suspected Cases Admitted to the Hospital Geographic Distribution of the Number of Lab-Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Geographic Distribution of the Number of Lab-Confirmed Deaths Numbers in the maps are per 100,000 populations Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran 0 500 1000 1500 19 -… 20 -… 21 -… 22 -… 23 -… 24 -… 25 -… 26 -… 27 -… 28 -… 29 -… 1- … 2- … 3- … 4- … 5- … 6- … 7- … 8- … 9- … 10 -… 11 -… 12 -… 13 -… 14 -… 15 -… 16 -… 17 -… 18 -… 19 -… 20 -… 21 -… 22 -… 23 -… N um be r Lab-Confirmed and Cured Cases Confirmed Cases Cured cases 0 50 100 150 200 19 -F eb 20 -F eb 21 -F eb 22 -F eb 23 -F eb 24 -F eb 25 -F eb 26 -F eb 27 -F eb 28 -F eb 29 -F eb 1- M ar 2- M ar 3- M ar 4- M ar 5- M ar 6- M ar 7- M ar 8- M ar 9- M ar 10 -M ar 11 -M ar 12 -M ar 13 -M ar 14 -M ar 15 -M ar 16 -M ar 17 -M ar 18 -M ar 19 -M ar 20 -M ar 21 -M ar 22 -M ar 23 -M ar Lab-Confirmed Deaths