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. 2021 May 1;29(7):682–691. doi: 10.1016/j.jsps.2021.04.030

Table 1.

Distribution of COVID-19 confirmed cases and their outcome by Saudi administrative regions, March-August 2020.

Region 1Population Confirmed cases (N = 649,511)
2Incidence proportion
Outcome (N = 117,299)
3CFR
Symptomatic
Symptomatic
Yes % No % Yes No Recovered % Dead %
Riyadh 8,771,918 69,174 22.5 69,967 20.4 788.5 797.6 24,706 21.5 351 14.9 0.5
Eastern 5,271,050 73,018 23.8 65,387 19.1 1385.2 1240.4 26,002 22.6 122 5.2 0.2
Makkah 8,990,579 72,387 23.6 78,806 23.0 805.1 876.5 42,186 36.7 1514 64.3 2.1
AlMadina 2,280,945 12,846 4.2 17,697 5.2 563.2 775.8 12,342 10.7 275 11.7 2.1
AlQassim 1,550,080 18,706 6.1 10,672 3.1 1206.7 688.4 1833 1.6 18 0.8 0.1
Tabouk 1,000,609 3,869 1.3 9,739 2.8 386.6 973.30 2531 2.2 17 0.7 0.4
Hail 756,611 5,878 1.9 6,719 2.0 766.8 888.03 1073 0.9 14 0.6 0.2
Northern Borders 405,119 1,444 0.5 4,122 1.2 356.4 1017.4 528 0.5 11 0.5 0.8
Jazan 1,730,961 14,644 4.8 17,785 5.2 846.0 1027.4 1166 1.0 16 0.7 0.1
Najran 642,205 6,018 2.0 6,672 1.9 937.0 1038.9 675 0.6 3 0.1 0.0
AlBahah 519,994 3,244 1.1 5,798 1.7 623.9 1115.0 605 0.5 5 0.2 0.2
AlJouf 558,995 712 0.2 3,843 1.1 127.4 687.4 160 0.1 1 0.0 0.1
Assir 2,419,896 25,070 8.2 45,294 13.2 1036.0 1871.7 1136 1.0 9 0.4 0.0
Total 34,898,962 307,010
(47.3%)
100.0 342,501
(52.7%)
100.0 879.7 981.4 114,943
(98.0%)
100.0 2,356
(2.0%)
100.0 0.8
1

Saudi General Authority for Statistics. The sixteenth guide 2017. [cited 2020 Oct 15]. Available from: https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/825.

2

Incidence proportion = Symptomatic no/Population no * 100,000

3

Case fatality ratio (CFR) = Dead no/ٍSymptomatic no * 100