The recognition of coronavirus (COV) as a separate virus family occurred during 1960s in the wake of the discovery of several new human respiratory pathogens, which appeared highly similar to the avian infectious bronchitis virus and mouse hepatitis virus. Coronavirus has entered the limelight owing to the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS COV) in Southeast Asia and the ongoing transmission since 2012 of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS COV), which caused about 37% mortality among patients seeking medical attention (Graham et al., 2012). Both viruses are closely related to COV, which is found in bats and other potential reservoirs (Ge et al., 2013; Menachery et al., 2015). The newly identified corona virus has caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARS COV-2) pneumonia-like disease called Corona