Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-COV2, has been reported as a highly virulent virus. The disease usually targets the human respiratory system. The World Health Organization first reported the epidemic in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and announced it on January 30, 2020.
(WHO) to be a public health emergency of international concern (WHO, 2020g).
The pandemic led to the closure of universities and schools in about 193 countries, affecting more than 99.4% of the student population globally (UNESCO, 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic has evolved rapidly into one of the most shocking and devastating public health crises. It was reported by mid-July 2020 that an estimated 13 million worldwide cases, with at least 575,000 deaths and 7.33 million recoveries (Mansour et al., 2020).
Globally, the battle for containment of coronavirus disease outbreaks is taking a new dimension. Gross et al. (2020) reported that one of the most significant characteristics of epidemics is their spatial spread, a property that mainly depends on the epidemic mechanism and human mobility and, therefore, offers a control strategy.
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