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Disease caused by the novel coronavirus officially has a name: Covid-19

Disease caused by the novel coronavirus officially has a name: Covid-19.
This CDC illustration reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has been confirmed in more than 42,000 people

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