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by JamesG124 2258 days ago
> most of Asia continues to call it Wuhan Virus

Do you have a source for this?

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I'm not about to go searching, I'm watching WION on youtube at the moment which is a (new, 2015) news outlet in India which often refers to it as Wuhan Virus, but if I posted anything that wasn't CNN or NYT or such I'll prob just get downvoted with comments saying "oh thats fake news" or "thats not a creditable because we don't have it here in America".

To be clear when I say "most of asia" I don't mean, every country, and every news outlet. But that it's not uncommon.

I've seen news in Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, all refer to it as Wuhan Virus.

Singapore (where I live) I don't recall seeing it referred to as Wuhan Virus since maybe mid-march.

In any case if someone refers to it as Chinese/China Virus, I completely agree that it's racist. But Wuhan is the origin, and the original name given. Renaming has probably only hurt china more as people are very angry with the WHO and ccp.

It’s called "Wuhan pneumonia" (武漢肺炎) in Mandarin in Taiwan and in Cantonese in Hong-Kong. https://zh-yue.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/武漢肺炎大爆發
SARS-CoV-2 is pretty specific. Comparing with covid-19 seems more reasonable. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Wuhan%20virus,cov...
Do you have access to the world's most powerful search engine that can locate almost any source for you in an instant?
I don't know. If you mean Google, it's been lobotomized over the past decade.