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From new coronary pneumonia to coronavirus pneumonia-19 How does WHO name new diseases?

February 1 1 The Global Research and Innovation Forum opened in Geneva. Tedros Adanom Gai breyer Seuss, Director-General of WHO, announced at a news conference that this novel coronavirus was named "Coronavirus Pneumonia-19".

The name coronavirus pneumonia-19 comes from corona, virus and disease, and 19 represents the year when the disease appeared. The epidemic situation in COVID-19 was reported to the World Health Organization on February 3, 2009.

Press conference of joint prevention and control mechanism in the State Council held a press conference in Xizhimen Office of National Health and Wellness Commission on February 8th15th to introduce the situation of epidemic prevention and control and market order maintenance.

At the meeting, spokesperson Song Shuli issued a notice about the temporary name of COVID-19's pneumonia: novel coronavirus's pneumonia is abbreviated as "novel coronavirus" or "COVID-19", and its English name is "Novel coronavirus pneumonia" or "NCP".

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