As defined by the World Health Organization, Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).

In early 2020, after the December outbreak of 2019 in China, WHO identified and declared a new type of coronavirus, which has been named SARS-CoV-2. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been name...