WHO renames Coronavirus as ‘COVID-19’

Coronavirus has been officially renamed as ‘COVID-19’ by the World Health Organization where ‘Co’ stands for coronavirus, ‘VI’ stands for the virus, ‘D’ stands for disease and numerical ‘19’ stands for the year it was detected.
The deadly coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 1200 people in China, crossing the number of deaths caused during the SARs outbreak.
The virus which originated in the Wuhan food market has spread across the world with maximum damage in China, followed by Japan.
Coronavirus officially refers to a group of RNA viruses that cause different diseases in humans and animals.
As per the latest figures revealed by the World Health Organisation, there are about 42,708 confirmed COVID-19 cases in China. And outside China, around 393 confirmed cases have been reported across 24 countries with one death.