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“My name is Kovid and I’m not a virus”

(The Washington Post): People named Kovid have encountered some new problems in their daily lives.

Kovid Kapoor says his life has been turned upside down by the World Health Organization’s decision to name the disease covid-19.
  • Jennifer Hassan

    The Washington Post

Kovid Kapoor from Bangalore, India wrote this on Twitter in February 2020: “My name is Kovid and I am not a virus”.

At that time, the WHO had just decided that the disease from the coronavirus would be called covid-19. This would not be the last time Kapoor used the phrase.

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