<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" id="mwAbE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" id="mwAbI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> officially names the coronavirus outbreak as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19" id="mwAbM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>, with the virus being designated <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2" id="mwAbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2">SARS-CoV-2</a>.<sup about="#mwt295" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-57"}}' id="cite_ref-57" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_11#cite_note-57" id="mwAbU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 57;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAbY">[57]</span></a></sup>
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