On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization listed COVID-19 as a global pandemic.ĭue to the global pandemic of COVID-19, several prevention measures were taken. This virus outbreak has grown extensively to infect 13,575,158 people worldwide and has lead to 584,940 death cases as of J( WHO, 2020a, WHO, 2020b). Details about this epidemic were released by the National Health Commission of China on Janu( Wang et al., 2020). The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recently named the novel coronavirus SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2), which is now generally called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) ( Gorbalenya et al., 2020a, Gorbalenya et al., 2020b). Later, Chinese researchers determined a human to human transmission of the virus and initially named the novel virus Wuhan coronavirus or 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) ( Adam et al., 2020). (2020) initially mentioned that patients who have been infected by the coronavirus in China might have gone to Wuhan where live animals were being sold.
The virus was linked to a wholesale seafood market in Wuhan, China, when an unknown pathogen was identified by the local hospitals in a group of patients who are accustomed to pneumonia ( Zhu et al., 2020, Fan et al., 2020). After the emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in China, a new SARS-like coronavirus was discovered last December 2019 ( Zhou et al., 2020).
Coronavirus (COVID-19), a highly transmittable disease that threatens the human population worldwide, is considered to be the third pandemic in the 21st century ( Perlman, 2020).
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