ems (Cui, Li, & Shi, 2019). Consistently, SARS-CoV-2 primarily targets the lungs but it can affect many other organs and systems, including the kidneys, heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal tract and brain (Wadman, Couzin-Frankel, Kaiser, & Matacic, 2020). Symptoms of COVID-19 are manifested as myalgia, fatigue, fever and dry cough, together with lower respiratory tract disease. In s