Machine Intelligence Techniques for the Identification and Diagnosis of COVID-19.

COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered enveloped virus (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and affected the whole world. The infected individual may develop symptoms such as high fever, cough, myalgia, lymphopenia, respiratory distress syndrome etc., or remain completely asymptomatic after the incubation period of two to fourteen days.