In 2017, while red-flagging the concern of biological warfare at an international security conference, philanthropist businessman Bill Gates underlined how a respiratory-spread pathogen could kill 30 million people in less than a year. Coronavirus has not emanated from a terrorist module, but it seems to have the potential to become exactly the global epidemic Gates was warning against. Within three months of its outbreak, coronavirus has already claimed over 3,200 lives and has spread to over 93,000 cases across 70 countries. Outside China which has borne most of the disease brunt, Iran has reported 92 deaths while Italy has reported 79. With WHO declaring it a public health emergency of international concern, the disease has also made its way to the US amid much criticism of the Trump administration’s initial handling of the health threat.