Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is the infectious disease caused by novel coronavirus [severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)], which has spread all over the globe as a pandemic. At the point of starting vaccination programs, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths related to the disease has exceeded 75 million and 1.6 million since the start of the pandemic,
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