2. novel coronavirus, abbreviated as "COVID-19", was named "20 19 coronavirus disease" by the World Health Organization, which refers to pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus infection in 20 19.
3. Naming process: On February/KOOC-0//KOOC-0/day, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced in Geneva that novel coronavirus would be named "Coronavirus Pneumonia-/KOOC-0/9". On February 2 1 2020, the National Health and Wellness Committee issued a notice on the revision of the English name of novel coronavirus, and decided to change the English name of "novel coronavirus" to "Coronavirus Pneumonia-19", which was consistent with the name of the World Health Organization, and the Chinese name remained unchanged.