Pandemics involving pathogenic human coronaviruses have wreaked havoc on the human populace. During the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) epidemic in 2002–2003, a high fatality rate of 10% was observed in the approximately 8,000 individuals infected (Marra et al., 2003; Peiris et al., 2003; Rota et al., 2003; SARS Working Group, 2003). In 2012, the middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) had a much higher fatality rate of 36% and infected more than 1,700 individuals (de Groot et al., 2013; Zaki et al., 2012). However, the recent SARS-CoV outbreak of 2019, also referred to as SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 (Chen et al., 2020), began in Wuhan in China and spread rapidly due to close human-to-human proximity (Li et al., 2020). The SARS-CoV-2 has caused significant devastation globally due to the sheer number of people infected. According to statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 4,334,451 known cases of Covid-19 worldwide, out of which 19,737,794 cases alone are reported from America, while Europe attributes 9,664,042 cases, causing death casualties of over 1,157,509 globally as of Oct 27, 2020.