covid-19

Covid-19 is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by a virus of the coronavirus family, called SARS-CoV-2. Covid-19 spread very rapidly in 2020, and soon became a pandemic affecting every country in the world.

The name is formed from the first letters of: COrona VIrus Disease (‘coronavirus disease’) and 19 from 2019 (the year in which it appeared for the first time).

We normally use covid.