al symptoms of different mutated coronaviruses to develop new targeted drugs from scratch (Zumla et al., 2016).
Till date, research has identified more than 30 therapeutic agents, including natural products, allopathic drugs and traditional Chinese medicines which could potentially be effective against COVID-19. For initial treatment of COVID-19, the People's Republic of China National Health Commission (NHC) has included antiviral agents including interferon α (IFN-α), lopinavir/ritonavir, chloroquine phosphate, ribavirin and arbido