2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease is a term that the WHO uses to refer to the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 .
The number of deaths was 259 as of 1 February 2020 ( 00:00 UTC ) . The WHO has coined the interim term `` 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease '' to describe the disease caused by the virus .
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2