摘要
Since early December 2019,the novel coronavirus has caused an outbreak of pneumonia that has claimed over 2000 lives,with more than 77,000 confirmed cases of infection by February 23,2020 in China.[1]The World Health Organization(WHO)recently named the disease caused by this new coronavirus as"coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)".The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses(ICTV)has named the new virus"severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)".[2]However,questions have been raised by different academic and professional bodies regarding whether the nomenclature is appropriate.
