On February 1 1, WHO Director-General Tan Desai announced at the press conference of the Global Research and Innovation Forum that novel coronavirus was named "Coronavirus Pneumonia-19", where "Co" stands for "Coronavirus", "Vi" stands for "Virus" and "D" stands for. So far, 20 19 novel coronavirus, which caused a large-scale pneumonia epidemic in China, has an official name.
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On February 20 19, an "unexplained pneumonia" occurred in Wuhan, China. On October 7th, 2020/kloc-0, it was confirmed as "novel coronavirus" by whole genome sequencing, and on October 2nd1kloc-0, it was temporarily named "20 19-" by the World Health Organization. 20 19 stands for the year when this virus was discovered, n stands for the new type, and CoV stands for the English abbreviation of coronavirus.
Because "20 19-ncov" is long and difficult to pronounce, it can't be pronounced smoothly, causing a lot of inconvenience. Many foreign media and the public even turned to other names.
People's Daily Online-The novel Coronavirus was named "Coronavirus Pneumonia-19".