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In late December 2019, a number of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause were admitted to hospitals in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Through a comparison with early incidents, likely origins of this pneumonia were ruled out, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and influenza virus. Later on, these cases would be posing a threat of a new potential outbreak of the coronavirus (CoV) family, subsequently being named the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) by the World Health Organization (WHO), which generated the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). COVID-19 was amended to be classified as a class B notifiable illness on 20 January 2020, by China’s ‘National Infectious Disease Law’. Additionally, the ‘Frontier Health and Quarantine Law’ was therefore imposed in an effort to lessen the COVID-19 outbreak. According to the WHO, COVID-19 has managed to break barriers, spreading to over 215 countries. Therefore, the WHO has declared the COVID-19 epidemic a pandemic, as of 11 March 2020. Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 has managed to infect over 4 million people from all over the world, as of 11 May 2020, and caused about 278,993 deaths worldwide. Furthermore, the COVID-19 outbreak had inflicted a huge burden on the quality of life of many people. Therefore, officials in public health sectors and governments have introduced a variety of measures to help stop the spreading