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Corona virus ( covid 19)

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Corona virus (Covid 19) The COVID-19 outbreak has affected all  COVID-19  ( coronavirus disease 2019 ) is an infectious disease caused by  severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2  ( SARS-CoV-2 ), previously known as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), a strain of  coronavirus . The first cases were seen in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019 before spreading globally  1,2,10 . The current  outbreak  was officially recognised as a  pandemic  on 11 March 2020  44 . Terminology   The  World Health Organisation (WHO)  originally called this illness "novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP)", and the  virus  itself had been provisionally named "2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)"  1 . On 11 February 2020, the WHO officially renamed the clinical condition COVID-19 (a shortening of COronaVIrus Disease-19)  15 . Coincidentally, on the same day, the Coronavirus Study Group o...