Abstract
In February 2020, WHO officially named the novel coronavirus disease as
the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and on March 11, proclaimed it
a pandemic. The daily increasing number of cases infected with COVID-19
has distressed people and alarmed health authorities worldwide. While no
prophylactic vaccine or effective drug for COVID 19 exists, the pandemic
is mainly managed by avoidance strategies. We posit that two factors may
have accelerated the propagation of the pandemic. First, undertaking
unguided research may have negatively influenced the intervention
measures against the pandemic. Second, noncompliance with timely
in-house isolation of infected cases has undoubtedly worsened the
pandemic. Successful management of the pandemic highly depends on the
cumulative knowledge about the virus.