The Global Research and Innovation Forum opened in Geneva on February 11. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced at a press conference that the new coronavirus will be named "COVID-19".
The name COVID-19 comes from the three words coronavirus, virus and disease, and 19 represents the year 2019 when the disease appeared. The novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic was reported to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019.
The State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Press Conference was held at 15:00 on February 8 in the Xizhimen office area of ??the National Health Commission to introduce relevant situations such as maintaining market order during epidemic prevention and control.
At the meeting, spokesperson Song Shuli issued a notice on the temporary naming of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus infection: the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus infection is uniformly called "new coronavirus pneumonia", or "new coronavirus pneumonia" for short. The English name is "Novel coronavirus pneumonia", or "NCP" for short.