{"id":85459,"date":"2020-02-12T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13684"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:20:32","slug":"who-names-the-new-corona-virus-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-names-the-new-corona-virus-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO names the new Corona Virus: \u201cCOVID-19\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> WHO has announced that &#8220;COVID-19&#8221; will be the official name of the deadly Coronavirus from China. &#8220;Co&#8221; stands for &#8220;corona&#8221;, &#8220;vi&#8221; for &#8220;virus&#8221; and &#8220;d&#8221; for &#8220;disease&#8221;, while &#8220;19&#8221; was for the year, as the outbreak was first identified on December 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coronavirus:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>These are viruses belonging to a family known as <strong>Coronaviridae<\/strong>. They are <strong>zoonotic,<\/strong> meaning they are transmitted between animals and people<\/li><li>They cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;COVID-19 is a <strong>new strain of coronavirus<\/strong> that has not been previously identified in humans. It has been designated SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: WHO has announced that &#8220;COVID-19&#8221; will be the official name of the deadly Coronavirus from China. &#8220;Co&#8221; stands for &#8220;corona&#8221;, &#8220;vi&#8221; for &#8220;virus&#8221; and &#8220;d&#8221; for &#8220;disease&#8221;, while &#8220;19&#8221; was for the year, as the outbreak was first identified on December 31. Facts: Coronavirus: These are viruses belonging to a family known as Coronaviridae.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-names-the-new-corona-virus-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO names the new Corona Virus: \u201cCOVID-19\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2028,1087],"class_list":["post-85459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704867486},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}