COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly across the world since December 2019. The pandemic has overwhelmed the health systems of developed and developing nations alike (Chowdhury & Jomo, 2020). Countries lacked the required ability to test, trace, treat, and isolate/quarantine the infected population. It is well established that true community burden would remain higher than the reported caseload owing to various reasons like asymptomatic infections, the differences in testing strategies by time and place, variable sensitivities of laboratory tests used for diagnosis, and other factors influencing the health-seeking behaviour of the population (M.
