en Health Improvement Strategies Health Improvement Strategies گزارش کوتاه Short Communication <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The disease has infected approximately 195,000 people and killed about 7,700 in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. As COVID-19 is spreading globally, its economic consequences also mounting across all countries. This perspective research designed to examine briefly the economic consequences of COVID-19 on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries.</span></span></p> Coronavirus Disease 2019, COVID-19, Economic Consequences, MENA 304 306 http://journal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-5420-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed Mohammad Hashemi-Shahri hashemimahdi@zaums.ac.ir 5200319475328460088774 5200319475328460088774 No Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran Eshagh Barfar eshaghbarfar@gmail.com 5200319475328460088775 5200319475328460088775 Yes Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam ansarialireza@yahoo.com 5200319475328460088776 5200319475328460088776 No Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran Mohammad Khammarnia m_khammar1985@yahoo.com 5200319475328460088777 5200319475328460088777 No Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran Fatemeh Setoodehzadeh 5200319475328460088778 5200319475328460088778 No Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran Hassan Okati-Aliabad okati_h@yahoo.com 5200319475328460088779 5200319475328460088779 No Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran