“…COVID-19 is a global challenge, requiring cross-disciplinary cooperation and research to control, in order to maintain the sustainable development of society. Computational biology, big data and artificial intelligence are being used in daily monitoring, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases ( Ahmed, Ahmad, Rodrigues, Jeon, & Din, 2020 ; Bhattacharya et al, 2020 ; Loey, Manogaran, Taha, & Khalifa, 2020 ; Zhou, Qiu, Pu, Huang, & Ge, 2020 ). Abboah-Offei et al (2021) investigated the impact face mask has had in controlling transmission of respiratory viral infections.…”