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> According to WHO, Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV is now officially called COVID-19.

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> “We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease,” the WHO chief said. “It also gives us a standard format to use for any future coronavirus outbreak.”

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