#!/bin/bash
s='1 Cov2,
2 CoV-2,
3 COVID-2,
4 COVID19,
5 COVID-19,
6 COVID 19, etc'
grep -i -E "COV(ID)?[-[:space:]]?(2|19)" <<< "$s"
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