The Disease That Stopped Life As We Know It: Covid-19 Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have heard and seen many different beliefs and practises. Here I will address some of these beliefs and provide fact instead of rumour. So and So's got coronavirus... Firstly, I think it is important to distinguish between Covid-19 and Coronavirus. The name of the disease that is at the centre of this pandemic is Coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated to Covid-19. Covid-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered CORONA VIRUS . Coronavirus is a large family of viruses, some of which cause less-severe diseases than Covid-19, such as the common cold; others causes more serious diseases such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The virus causing Covid-19 has been defined as SARS-CoV-2. Initial research into the SARS-Cov-2 virus indicates that it is a beta-coronavirus that is genetically similar to SARS-like c