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Novel coronavirus

Novel means ‘new’ and the word is used with coronavirus to refer specifically to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was discovered in 2019, and to distinguish it from the other coronaviruses that caused previous epidemics such as SARS and MERS in previous years.

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Infectious Disease

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SARS-CoV-2SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome)Virus

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