Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome (WARS) 武漢新型冠狀病毒肺炎（武漢肺炎）

Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome (WARS)
繁：武漢新型冠狀病毒肺炎（武漢肺炎）
简：武汉新型冠状病毒肺炎（武汉肺炎）

武漢新型冠狀病毒肺炎疫情蔓延，中共於大年初一（25日）新成立的「中央應對新型冠狀病毒感染肺炎疫情工作領導小組」由國務院總理李克強任組長，昨天（26日）主持召開首次會議，部署疫情防控工作。

【武漢肺炎】李克強任抗疫組長 500萬人流出武漢 湖北建3組合醫院 武漢市長料再增千病例（2020年1月29日）。明報健康網，取自
https://health.mingpao.com/【武漢肺炎】李克強任抗疫組長-500萬人流出武漢-湖/

While the Chinese government officially called the Wuhan disease “novel coronavirus” and Hong Kong’s Center of Health Protection named it a “severe respiratory disease associated with a novel infectious agent,” some netizens and media labeled the disease with an ironic term – Wuhan Acute Respiratory Syndrome (WARS), modeled on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

South Korea to send $5 million worth of humanitarian aid to China. (2020, January 24). Asia Times. Retrieved from https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/wuhan-declares-state-of-war-against-virus/