Novel coronavirus
Provisional name given to any recently discovered coronavirus of medical significance / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the naming of newly discovered coronaviruses. For the 2019 virus, see Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. For the pandemic, see COVID-19 pandemic.
Novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a provisional name given to coronaviruses of medical significance before a permanent name is decided upon. Although coronaviruses are endemic in humans and infections normally mild, such as the common cold (caused by human coronaviruses in ~15% of cases), cross-species transmission has produced some unusually virulent strains which can cause viral pneumonia and in serious cases even acute respiratory distress syndrome and death.[1][2][3]
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