Abstract:
Introduction: Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become global pandemic. Proinûammatory mediator, serum ferritin is reported to be elevated significantly by different studies in COVID-19. Our study was aimed to find whether serum ferritin level can be employed as a biomarker to assess the disease severity in COVID-19 cases.