Exact Defined Meaning COVID19

 

What does COVID-19 mean?

The name COVID-19 comes from the three words corona (corona), virus (virus) and disease (disease), and 19 represents the year 2019 when the disease appeared. The new crown pneumonia epidemic was reported to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019.

During the Davos Forum in January this year, Richard Hatchett, an international epidemic prevention expert, said in an interview with Jiemian News that it is inappropriate to call the epidemic in China "Wuhan pneumonia". of. When naming a specific epidemic, no specific region, country or ethnicity should be stigmatized.

 

On February 11, World Health Organization Director-General Tan Desai announced that the pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus will be officially named "Covid-19" (COVID-19). Among them, "CO" stands for Corona (corona), "VI" stands for Virus (virus), "D" stands for Disease (disease), and "19" stands for the year 2019 when the disease was discovered. At the same time, because the coronavirus that caused the pneumonia is highly related to the coronavirus that caused SARS, the virus was named "SARS-CoV-2".

Prior to this, there have been many "alias" for new coronary pneumonia: WHO has temporarily used "2019-nCov", and the National Health Commission has recommended "NCP" (new coronavirus pneumonia), but it is considered difficult to remember, not easy to spread. 

The folks and the media have spread "wild pneumonia," "Wuhan pneumonia," and "Chinese pneumonia", which have been criticized as discriminatory.

 

During the Davos Forum in January this year, Richard Hatchett, an international epidemic prevention expert, said in an interview with Jiemian News that it is inappropriate to call the epidemic in China "Wuhan pneumonia". When naming a specific epidemic, no specific region, country or ethnicity should be stigmatized.

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