The disease caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been given new name COVID-19 by the international body WHO which makes no reference to any of the people, places or animals associated with this vírus.
A doença causada pelo mortal novo coronavírus que já custou milhares de vidas até agora recebeu um novo nome COVID-19
o acrônimo Covid-19 significa Corona vírus Doença 2019, as this highly infectious doença was first diagnosed last year.
Under international guidelines, the W.H.O. “has to find a name that does not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the doença"
In keeping with this policy to avoid stigmatising, WHO chose the new name COVID-19 which makes no reference to any of the people, places or animals associated with this vírus.
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