Abstract
As the new decade began everything rapidly unfolded into a scenario that the world will remember for years to come. We are experiencing an unimaginable global viral pandemic of zoonotic origin that policy, investments and our collective imaginations over the coming years will be overshadowed by a virus that took fewer than 100 days to shut the world down. The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an official name for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 disease COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019).On March 11, WHO has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic.
