Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Microbiology 2008-3289 12 3 2020 05 29 261 262 Zahid Hussain Khan Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Shahram Samadi Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Jalil Makarem Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Seyed Mohamad Mireskandari Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2020 04 17 2020 05 22 COVID-19 has literally ravaged the entire world. People from all walks of life are badly affected because of compulsory lockdown around the world. Timely diagnosis is a problem as there is no single test that can achieve the highest acceptable sensitivity. Some of the tests are indeed costly and footing the bill by the governments can cause a tremendous load on the Treasury. As it stands, the current tests are beyond patient means and, thus, the patient would never have it performed. Lastly, there is no consensus as to whether everyone should be tested for COVID-19 and not based on presence of clinical features.Unfortunately, since the disease has been declared a pandemic, all should be considered to be infected unless provenotherwise by the tests that are performed. https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/2592 https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/download/2592/1250