Preface

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Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared the outbreak of a respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in China and then within a short span of time it spread almost all countries in the world, including United States. The virus has been named “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”).

Recently, World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concernexternal icon” (PHEIC). On March 11, WHO publiclyexternal icon characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic.

My inspiration of writing “Coronavirus Disease 2019” is my beloved late wife Shahina Maula Rahman . She entered in my life very quietly and remained quite raising my two sons with extreme patience, care and love. She remained as my friend, role model and mentor during my bad and good days for 37 years. She propagated her moral and ethical values that ignited my soul to be able to see and calibrate my mind to achieve my mission as a human being and remained with me with her love and guidance from the eternity. Her dedication in education and services to the community as a good physicist, an excellent teacher, with many other magnificent human qualities as a dedicated mother, a trustworthy wife, and an extremely passionate, warm, soft spoken, and gentle person left a legacy of descendants that will represent her for a long time. I am dedicated to carry on her values in my works through writing books and other humanitarian mission to keep her soul with peace in the eternity. My initial works of composing the books are for the memories of my beloved late wife, Shahina.