Corona virus or COVID-19 is a group of several viruses that spread among mammals and birds.  Till now 3200 people have died due to this virus all over the world and more than 94 thousand people are infected with it.


 Now the question arises that who named this virus after all and why?


 Actually, a virus and the disease it causes are different.  HIV is the virus that causes AIDS disease.  Similarly 'Measles' is a disease and the name of the virus that spreads it is 'Rubella'.


 Why are diseases named after them? 

 Diseases are given a specific name so that their infectivity/spread, severity, prevention, and treatment of vaccine efforts are directed in a successful direction.  If the disease is not named at all, doctors will have trouble knowing what the disease can be and what treatment is to be done?


 Therefore diseases are officially designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).


 Who gives names to the virus? 

 virus name;  To facilitate the development of diagnostic tests, vaccines and drugs are placed on the basis of their genetic structure.  Virologists and other scientific communities do this work.  The virus has been named by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).


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 Why is the corona virus named as Corona?  (How Corona Named)


 The word corona in Latin means crown or crown.  The 'corona' is also called an aura of plasma that surrounds the Sun and other stars.  The Sun's corona extends for millions of kilometers into outer space, and is most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but it can also be seen clearly with the help of a coronagraph.


 When scientists looked at the corona virus through an electron microscope, they looked like a virus, a crown or a karona of the Sun.  Actually, this virus is round and like the sun's karona on its surface, stems of proteins have grown;  Which seems to be spreading in every direction, just like the rays of the sun's aura.  That is why it has been named Corona.


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 The World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020, officially named the coronavirus as "COVID-19" on February 11, 2020.


 In this, 'CO' means corona 'VI' virus 'D' means disease and 19 has been added because it was first detected in the year 2019.

 Hope you now understand how the corona virus is named and what the word "COVID-19" is made of and what it means?

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