Abstract
The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December of 2019 and has spread rapidly to an increasing number of countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared SARS-CoV-2 infection as a pandemic. Efforts to contain the virus are underway; however, given the many uncertainties regardi…