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Introduction

The COVID-19 outbreak was treated as a case of pneumonia with unknown etiology appeared in the Wuhan city of China, at the end of December 2019, which spread across the country to worldwide with a high rate [1]. The PRC (People's Republic of China) Centre for Disease Control (CDC) analyzed the respiratory samples and declared that the pneumonia was caused by a novel coronavirus which named the pneumonia as Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) [2]. The coronavirus is one of the major virus that target the respiratory system of the human [3]. The Chinese researchers named the virus as 2019-nCoV [4]. Later, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Virus named the novel coronavirus as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) [5]. On the same day, February 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) || PROPOLI ||name the Pneumonia as Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) [6].

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID 19 outbreak as sixth public health of emergency Services (SPHEC) on January 30, 2020 [7]. This was not the first outbreak of the coronavirus. The previous coronavirus outbreaks include Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) outbreak and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak [8]. The COVID-19 thought the third outbreak of the coronavirus which affected more than 209 countries including Pakistan. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), total of 1,093,349 confirmed || PROPOLI ||cases with 58,620 mortalities. To date, the number of highest positive cases encountered in USA followed by Italy and Spain [9].

The border countries of Pakistan highly affected including China, where the COVID-19 outbreak experienced first time. In the w || PROPOLI ||est, Italy with highest number of COVID-19 mortalities while in the north, Iran a high number || PROPOLI ||of mortalities after the Italy [10]. InITALY, the first case of COVID-19 has been