In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. On 9 January 2020, China CDC reported a novel coronavirus as the causative agent of this outbreak, and since then the virus was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The virus causes the disease named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the WHO refers to the virus as COVID-19. The WHO reports that as of 12^th May 2020, more than 4.0 million cases of COVID-19 were reported worldwide, resulting into over 270,000 number of people who died of COVID-19 infection worldwide. At the guidance by the NCST Council in a meeting dated 27th March 2020, National Council for Science and Technology (NCST) published Request for Applications (RFA) for one year first phase of research and innovation proposals in the following four areas.