Covid 19 Full From Name - Covid-19 Realtime Info
We now have a name for the disease and its covid 19 who chief tedros adhanom.
Covid 19 full from name. The disease caused by the new coronavirus thats sickened more than 42000 people in china now has an official name. The world health organization says the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is covid 19. Which currently has 8 confirmed cases of covid 19. When it emerged the virus was known as a novel strain of the coronavirus family.
Heres why that is important. Full coverage and live updates on the coronavirus. Scientists gave the strain an interim name of 2019 ncov accounting for the. On february 11 2020 the world health organization announced an official name for the disease that is causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak first identified in wuhan china.
The new name of this disease is coronavirus disease 2019 abbreviated as covid 19. The official scientific name of the coronavirus causing the current pandemic is sars cov 2 but the disease itself is known as covid 19. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the sars outbreak of 2003. While related the two viruses are different.
It stands for the coronavirus disease that was discovered in 2019.