{"id":8194,"date":"2020-02-13T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2020-02-13T05:40:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:40:32","slug":"novel-coronavirus-is-officially-named-as-covid-19-by-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/novel-coronavirus-is-officially-named-as-covid-19-by-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel coronavirus is officially named as Covid-19 by WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the official\nname for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19. In choosing the\nname, WHO advisers focused simply on the type of virus that causes the disease.\nCo and Vi come from coronavirus and D meaning disease and 19 standing for 2019,\nthe year the first cases were seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virus that causes the disease has been known\nprovisionally as 2019-nCoV. A coronavirus group from the International\nCommittee on Taxonomy of Viruses, which is responsible for naming new viruses,\nproposed designating the novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2. The name reflects the\ngenetic similarities between the new coronavirus and the coronavirus that\ncaused the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19. In choosing the name, WHO advisers focused simply on the type of virus that causes the disease. Co and Vi come from coronavirus and D meaning disease and 19 standing for 2019, the year the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}