INTRODUCTION

On November 17, 2019 a corona virus was detected in the city of Wuhan, China. This pneumonia of unknown cause was first reported to the WHO Country Office in China on 31 December 2019. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. On 11 February 2020, WHO announced a name for the new corona virus disease: COVID-19. Since the virus began, it has infected over 6,257,772 people out of a possible global population of 4,468,915,667. The global death toll stands at around 380,267 people and climbing.