What does coronavirus pneumonia-19 mean?

Coronavirus pneumonia-19 is the name of novel Coronavirus, where "co" stands for "coronavirus", "Vi" is "virus" and "d" is "disease". So far, 20 19 novel coronavirus, which caused a large-scale pneumonia epidemic in China, has an official name. From 20 19 to 12, "unexplained pneumonia" occurred in Wuhan, China;

On June 7, 2020, 65438 was confirmed as "novel coronavirus" by whole genome sequencing. June 65438+10/October 65438+February 2020, the World Health Organization temporarily named it "20 19-ncov" (novel coronavirus, 20 19), and then officially named it coronavirus pneumonia-19.

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It was named coronavirus pneumonia-19 because "20 19-nCoV" was long and difficult to pronounce, which caused a lot of inconvenience. Many foreign media and the public even turned to other names. There are many lessons from the past global pandemics of infectious diseases.

H 1N 1 virus was prevalent in 2009, and it was called "swine flu". Killing pigs all over Egypt triggered protests from Copts who ate pork locally. In fact, the disease has not spread from person to person through pigs.

The MERS of 20 15 has also caused controversy, because "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome" has led to discrimination against residents in the Middle East.

People's Daily Online-The novel Coronavirus was named "Coronavirus Pneumonia-19".