Arab Open University (AOU), Oman branch received The Research Council (TRC) funding on COVID-19 research as part of the TRC’s COVID-19 Research Program. Dr. Sherimon P.C., Faculty of Computer Studies is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research. It is a collaborative study from researchers of Arab Open University, University of Technology and Applied Sciences and Royal Oman Police (ROP) hospital.

COVID-19 Research Program is a new initiative launched by The Research Council (TRC) in the background of the pandemic. Experts from several Research Institutes in Oman constitutes the Steering Committee of this Research Program. The main objective of this program is to support and guide research projects to focus on conducting relevant, high quality, realistic, short-term, applied research in multidisciplinary areas related to COVID-19 global pandemic.