ntosh, 2005). In December 2019, Wuhan city in China became the centre of a surge in cases of pneumonia by an unknown cause (Zhu et al., 2020). A novel corona virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was isolated from these pneumonia patients in January 2020 and the disease was called the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization in February, 2020 (Gorbalenya et. al, 2020; Jiang et al., 2020; Who, 2020). Even though the epidemic may have started from a zoonotic transmission in a seafood market, that a