The new coronavirus is named "COVID-19".
On February 11, 2020, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced at the press conference of the Global Research and Innovation Forum that the new coronavirus would be named "COVID-19", where "Co" stands for "Coronavirus", "Vi" stands for "virus" and "D" stands for "disease". At this point, the 2019 novel coronavirus that caused a large-scale pneumonia epidemic in China has an official name.
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As early as 1967, the international community established a specialized organization, the International Committee on Classification of Viruses, which is responsible for classifying and naming various viruses. In the past, this committee mainly determined from biology which category a virus should be classified into, and thus determined what to call it.
However, with the development of the times, linguistic and semantic factors have also been taken into consideration, and 7 principles for naming newly discovered diseases were set in 2015: 1. Durable availability; 2. Avoid or reject Use names that may cause errors or ambiguities; 3. Avoid unnecessary name creation; 4. The geographical location should not be included in the middle of the name; 5. The name does not contain a person's name; 6. The name does not contain the name of an animal or a certain food; 7. The name does not point to a specific culture or industry.
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