On December 31, 2019, several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). The novel virus, now known as SARS-CoV-2 (previously known as 2019-nCoV), a RNA virus of the beta coronavirus family, has since spread across China and to other countries and territories. The WHO has named the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 as coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated “COVID-19”).