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Coronavirus renamed again
Education and science
- 12 February, 2020
- 10:28
More than 1,100 people have died of the coronavirus, which has infected over 42,000 people in China.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has given a new name to the disease caused by a Chinese coronavirus.
Report informs, citing DW Turk, that the virus, which has already claimed numerous lives, has been named Covid-19.
The previous name for the virus, according to China's National Health Commission, was the 'pneumonia, caused by a novel coronavirus.' (NCP).
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