Artificial Intelligence-Based Systems for Combating COVID-19

The world has faced and overcame lots of viral and bacterial infections and diseases like Chikungunya, Cholera, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease, Hendra virus infection, Lassa fever, Nipah virus infection, Plague, SARS but currently, the world is under the impact of the very recent and much severe novel COVID-19 (2019n-CoV) which is said to have devastating effects on humans and has affected the highest number of population in the history of mankind (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/en/). To help contain the virus from further spread various approaches are being followed across the world as currently, no vaccine is available for the treatment of COVID-19 so the nations are following various preventive measures. Technology can now be seen as a game-changer in this outbreak as it has made things easier for us since the beginning. Some of the advanced technology like AI, IoT, Big Data, Cloud, etc. can make our fight against corona easier, as they can be utilized in healthcare and research effectively to generate astonishing outcomes so as to contain the pandemic. This paper shall focus on describing a few things about how technologies can help diagnose and contain COVID-19.