eported. Wuhan, the sprawling capital of Central China’s Hubei province very recently witnessed ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’ that was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on December 31, 2019. The causal agent coronavirus belonging to the family coronaviridae are enveloped viruses which are divided into four genera (α, β, γ, and δ). The SARS-CoV-2 virus (formerly designated as COVID-19) belonging to the class of β-coronaviruses is supposed to have evolved from