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Wuhan flu

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    COVID-19. dated, informal, offensive, sometimes, uncountable

    "The 10-year-old Chinese boy confined to isolation at Vachira Phuket Hospital yesterday on suspicion of carrying the Wuhan flu has tested negative for the virus and will rejoin his parents today (Jan 23), Phuket Provincial Health Office (PPHO) Chief Thanit Sermkaew has confirmed."

  2. 2
    a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 wordnet

Etymology

From Wuhan + flu, q.v., from its presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

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