COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Updated Review with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown microbial etiology associated with Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China on 31 December 2019 [1]. The WHO later announced that a novel coronavirus had been detected in samples taken from these patients. Since then, the epidemic has escalated and rapidly spread around the world, with the WHO first declaring a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and then formally declaring it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. The condition has been given the official name of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) [2,3]. The disease is characterized by fever, dry cough, chest pain with pneumonia and Death in severe cases. Several clinical trials are under process for the development of effective vaccination and novel drug therapies. Therefore, in this review, we provide recent information about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 formerly known as 2019 nCoV) caused by SARS-CoV-2, its Taxonomy, Epidemiology, pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment options along with a brief review of the management of mild to critically ill patients. In this Review Article, We also included a special note on Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is emerging as a lifesaver in our fight against COVID-19. AI has proved to be of great aid in drug development, clinical diagnosis, triage patients, monitoring mental health, forecasting spread, fighting misinformation, and even helping function robot cleaners.