Meaning of COVID-19 and Highlights of Associated Myth Busters
Meaning of COVID-19 and Highlights of Associated Myth Busters A reader of this blog recently asked to know the full meaning of COVID-19, saying he was confused that some persons called the current global pandemic ‘Coronavirus’ while others call it ‘COVID-19’. Being an interactive blog, but without any claim of medical expertise, let it be amplified here that the acronym COVID-19 stands for Corona Virus Disease of 2019 . The acronym was given by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a press conference on February 11, 2020. The disease started in Wuhan, China, in the late part of 2019, and has since spread globally. Regarding the choice of the acronym COVID-19, the Director-General of WHO said that under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, they had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or gro