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COVID-19 pandemic has become endemic and has plunged the global community into a perilous situation pervaded with an economic recession, loss of jobs, and the death of thousands of people. It spreads exponentially around the world, affects 213 countries and territories as well as two international conveyances. Yet, the pandemic has neither clinically proven drugs nor vaccines. Therefore, it is now evident that non-medical approaches such as deep learning, data mining, expert system, software agents, and other artificial intelligence techniques are urgently needed to combat the pandemic, provide alternative solutions to alleviate the huge burden on the limited health care systems available around the world and curtail the future outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, deep learning (DL) techniques evolved from machine learning (ML) concepts over a period of time and have been amply …