Abstract
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was recognized as the reason of a group of respiratory infections in Wuhan, China. It spread quickly, leading to an epidemic followed by a worldwide pandemic. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive observational study depends on the daily report released by ministry of health (MOH) in Saudi Arabia regarding COVID-19 including: total number of new cases, new cases in each city, recovery cases and mortalities. This study analyzed the situation of COVID-19 from March 2nd, 2020, to May 7th, 2020. Results: First case was reported on 2nd of March 2020; the curve of new cases had an abrupt marked increase in the middle of April due to mass testing. As of 7th of May 2020, Saudi Arabia reported 33731 cases with incidence rate of (96.88/100000) and most of the new cases were reported in Makkah 7261 (21.5%). Conclusions: COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading virus. Saudi Arabia recorded the largest number of cases reported in a single Arab country. Mass testing has a significant increase of reporting new, recovery and death cases.