At the Global Research and Innovation Forum in Geneva, the World Health Organization announced that the disease caused by the new coronavirus at the end of 2019 was officially named "COVID-19", where CO stands for coronavirus, VI is the virus, and D is the disease.
 
On the afternoon of February 8, Song Shuli, a spokesperson of the National Health and Medical Commission, reported at the meeting that the new coronavirus-infected pneumonia was temporarily named "new coronavirus pneumonia", and the English name was "Novel coronavirus pneumonia". Pneumonia ", English abbreviation" NCP ".