COVID-19 belongs to the family of viruses which cause different symptoms like fever, headache, breath difficulty, pneumonia like other lower respiratory tract infection. However, this is considered the third and the most lethal coronavirus outbreak after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in 2002-2003 and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012. However, the number of cases and mortality of the two previous outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV were much less than the current pandemic outbreak caused by COVID-19 which put global health system on high alert. This article focuses on (1) the ease of move from epidemic to pandemic, (2) the impact of COVID-19 on health system and beyond, (3) the role of ICT to reduce the impact of COVID-19, and (4) the life After COVID-19.
COVID-19: a non-living particle which could reshape human life