Abstract
This is an observational study conducted on the patients admitted to Expo Field hospital Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) confirmed infection between March and May 2020. This disease caused by SRAS-CoV-2 virus discovered for the first time in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020. We looked to the ABO and Rh blood groups distribution in 1014 COVID-19 confirmed patients. Our results showed that blood group O was the most common in these patients compared to the least common which is the ABO blood group. This is result goes with the findings of a few other studies that observed the association between the ABO blood type and COVID-19. However, this study has many limitations such as the non-availability of blood grouping in a considerable number of patients. In addition, there is no comparison with the data of normal blood group distribution of non-COVID-19 patients.
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