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The politics of naming the coronavirus is something that Beijing is sensitive to.
As the news about the new virus spread, it was called Wuhan flu, Wuhan coronavirus,
2019-nCoV etc, till the WHO named the disease Covid-19, which was a contraction of
the coronavirus disease-2019. Even as the reference to the city of origin was
removed by the WHO, President Trump, also sensitive to the naming game, began
aggressively calling it the China virus. He has also announced his administration’s
plans to punish China over the pandemic outbreak. In this, he is not alone, other
countries too are at loggerheads with Beijing, including Australia. Aggressive
Chinese pushback has not helped its case.