The disease is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a member of the Coronaviridae family of viruses and it belongs to the same family Betacoronaviruses, like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) (Chan et al., 2015; Elfiky & Azzam, 2020; Ibrahim et al., 2020).