there has been a cluster of patients with pneumonia of previously unknown cause in Wuhan, China. Research by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention assessed the lower respiratory tracts of these patients and discovered a novel corona virus, which has since been named the 2019 novel corona virus 15 . On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially named this novel corona virus
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