What is COVID-19 English?

COVID-19 English is 20 19-nCoV and novel coronavirus.

On June 5438+1October 65438+February, 2020, the World Health Organization officially named novel coronavirus, which caused the pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, as "20 19-NCOV", without mentioning "Wuhan".

Rumor has it that novel coronavirus has been named Sally. In response to the naming of the virus, Maria van Kehoff, acting head of the Department of New Infectious Diseases and Animal Infectious Diseases of WHO, said that WHO has no time to discuss the naming of the virus now, and will carry out this work when it has time. It is still called 20 19-nCoV.

On February 1 1, the International Committee on Virus Classification announced on its official website that the English name of novel coronavirus was "novel coronavirus".

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On the evening of October 30th, 2020/KLOC-0, at 65438, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the novel coronavirus epidemic was listed as a public health emergency of international concern.

On March 1 1, the World Health Organization said that the outbreak of COVID-19 had constituted a global "epidemic". On June 7, 2020, the State Council Press Office released the white paper "China Fighting COVID-19 Epidemic". 654381Oct 8, China signed an agreement with the Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization and formally joined the "COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation Plan".

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