By Varsha Sankar, PhD Statistics Student
Introduction: As long as human civilization has existed, infectious diseases and humanity have always been at war. Overtime, plagues, epidemics and pandemics have wrecked havoc of immense proportions on human beings and have, in most instances, altered the course of history and fostered a ‘new normal’ for future generations. According to health experts, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2).1 The virus first originated in Wuhan, China and presented itself to health practitioners in December 2019. Since then it has swept across the globe to 213 countries and territories with a reported 6,317,715 cases of which 375,036 resulted in deaths.
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