novel coronavirus was named "Covid-19".
On February 11th, 22, WHO Director-General Tan Desai announced at the press conference of the Global Research and Innovation Forum that novel coronavirus was named "Covid-19", where "Co" stands for "coronavirus", "Vi" is "virus" and "D" is "disease". At this point, 219 novel coronavirus, which caused a large-scale pneumonia epidemic in China, has an official name.
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From p>215, on May 8th of that year, after consultation with the World Organization for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization issued the Best Practice of Naming New Human Infectious Diseases (hereinafter referred to as "Best Practice"), "The purpose is to minimize the unnecessary negative impact of disease names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid any negative impact on any human.
"Best Practice" points out that the name of a disease can include general descriptive terms about the symptoms of the disease, such as respiratory diseases, nervous syndrome, watery diarrhea, etc. If it is reliable enough, it should include more specific descriptive terms such as disease performance, affected population, disease severity and seasonal characteristics.
such as progressive, adolescent, severe, winter, etc. When the pathogen causing the disease is known, it should be included in the name of the disease, such as coronavirus, influenza virus, salmonella and so on.
At the same time, the names of diseases should be as short as possible and easy to pronounce, such as H7N9 (an avian influenza), rabies (rabies) and malaria (malaria).
The Best Practice also stipulates that geographical location should be avoided in the names of diseases, such as Middle East respiratory syndrome, Spanish influenza and Rift Valley fever. Names, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Chagas disease.
Animals or food groups, such as swine flu, avian flu and monkeypox; Contents involving culture, population, industry or occupation, such as soldiers and nurses; And terms that may cause excessive panic, such as unknown, fatal, popular, etc.
People's Daily Online-WHO officially named the disease caused by COVID-19 as "Covid-19".