While awaiting a vaccine, massive public health interventions such as social awareness, social distancing, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, targeted screening, and border controls have been implemented nationally and globally to limit transmissibility and contain the epidemic since late January. As of December 8, 2020, a total of cumulative confirmed cases were estimated at more than 68 million and 1.5 million cumulative deaths with a case fatality rate of 2.28%. Since December 2019, the world is facing the pandemic of COVID-19. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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