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The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said the deadly Coronavirus new official name will be “Covid-19”.

Coronavirus now named “Covid-19” was first identified in China on December 31.

“We now have a name for the disease and it’s Covid-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.

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The WHO chief broke down and analysed the new name of the deadly disease, saying that, “co” stands for “corona”, “vi” for “virus” and “d” for “disease”.

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