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On December 31, 2019, China reported an outbreak of a new
coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus-2) that was detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province,
China. This new coronavirus was deemed responsible for the disease
in humans now called COVID-19 (i.e., Coronavirus Disease 2019). In
a matter of weeks, COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill,
prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global
pandemic on March 11, 2020. At the time COVID-19 was declared a
pandemic, there were a reported 113,584 cases globally 604 in