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Why is it called coronavirus?
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Coronavirus: Corona in spanish means crown, it was named like that because te virus has a crown shape.
Answered 5/12/2020
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CORONAvirus: If you look at covid viruses under an electron microscope the virions are surrounded by a halo shape or "corona". Corona means crown in Italian and in Latin is it is a garland or chaplet.
Answered 5/27/2020
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