The disease that has been previously called coronavirus will now be renamed to Covid-19, the World Health Organization Confirmed.
The decision was made in n effort to stop stigmatizing any geographical location or group of people.
“Having a name matters, to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing. It also gives us a standard format to use for any future coronavirus outbreak,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus said in a press conference in Switzerland.
Currently, Covid-19 has already killed 1,350 people and infected more than 4,500 across the world.
Commuters wearing face masks walk in Hankou railway station in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on January 21, 2020. – Asian countries on January 21 ramped up measures to block the spread of a new virus as the death toll in China rose to six and the number of cases surpassed 300, raising concerns in the middle of a major holiday travel rush. (Photo by – / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
People wear face masks and walk at a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. People wear face masks as they walk through a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. According to the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Friday, the tenth case diagnosed with the new coronavirus has been confirmed in Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
