Abstract
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an
unknown beta coronavirus that comes under the B genus, which causes Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a declared universal epidemic, posing a serious menace to
human health irrespective of the nationality. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO) statistics, as of September 10, 2021, there were 223,022,539
positive cases of COVID-19 with 4,602,883 fatalities reported worldwide. A total of
5,352,927,297 vaccine doses have been facilitated since September 5, 2021. This
pandemic has become a ravaging illness because of its highly contractible nature and
mutations. Many types of research in diverse fields of science have been initiated to
suppress the effects and manage the havoc. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is classified as a
subdomain of science, which most certainly contributed to numerous applications in
confronting the present state at a broader level. In this chapter, we have tried to explore
state-of-the-art AI techniques implemented in the perspective of COVID-19 across
multiple subjects of concern. The AI approaches are utilized in the treatment,
diagnosis, prediction of recovery, severity and mortality of patients, chest X-Ray and
computed tomography-based analysis, pandemic prediction, its control and
management, pharmaceutical research, COVID-19 text corpus processing, and virus
apprehension. Thus, the comprehension of various applications is meant to enlighten
the status of AI in this pandemonium. Finally, we conclude with some suggestions and
remarks to tackle the disaster in an improved way.