China’s National Health Commission gave the Wuhan coronavirus a temporary name at a news conference on Saturday.
For weeks, the rapidly-spreading virus has only been known by the name of the city where it originated, something which locals in Wuhan have found frustrating and stigmatizing.
Chinese officials said that the virus would temporarily be named the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia, or NCP.
There is no news on when an official final title for the virus will be designated.