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The 2020 pandemic virus is called SARS Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) to distinguish it from Severe Acute Res-piratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus that scared the world in 2003 and also to highlight that the two are closely related. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is corona-virus disease-2019 (Covid-19). It started in Wuhan city, in Hubei Province, China.
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