Q 01/05

On which date did the World Health Organization assess the COVID-19 outbreak as having become a pandemic?

A) 11 March

B) 30 January

C) 1 February

D) 1 April

Answer · why

A) 11 March

The WHO had already declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern six weeks earlier, when 7,818 infections had been confirmed.

Q 02/05

What does the "19" in COVID-19 refer to?

A) The 19th known coronavirus

B) The first 19 patients

C) A 19-day incubation period

D) The year 2019

Answer · why

D) The year 2019

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus spelled it out: CO for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for the year the outbreak was first identified.

Q 03/05

The word "coronavirus" comes from the Latin for what?

A) Spike

B) Ring

C) Crown

D) Sun

Answer · why

C) Crown

Under an electron microscope the virions have a fringe of bulbous projections that reminded virologists of the solar corona; the word was first used i...

Q 04/05

Wuhan, where the outbreak began, is the capital of which Chinese province?

A) Guangdong

B) Hubei

C) Sichuan

D) Henan

Answer · why

B) Hubei

With nearly 14 million people it is China's seventh-most-populous city and a major rail interchange, which helped the virus spread during the Chinese ...

Q 05/05

On which date did the WHO issue the official names COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2?

A) 31 December

B) 11 February

C) 20 January

D) 11 March

Answer · why

B) 11 February

WHO guidance since 2015 has avoided place names and groups of people in disease names, which is why "Wuhan coronavirus" was never adopted.