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My name is Kovid and I am not a virus | Exclusive

My name is Kovid and I am not a virus | Exclusive

India Today
Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:01 PM GMT

Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Kovid Kapoor never knew that he was up for an amusing ride when a virus outbreak was first reported in China in 2019. As the virus spread rapidly raging across the world, WHO announced 'Covid-19' as the name of this new disease on February 11, 2020 and that was it - Kovid Kapoor's facepalm moment!

For 31 years you live with a meaning of your name and then suddenly a pandemic gets named after you. Or at least it seems so. "Hi, I am Kovid Kapoor," there you go introducing yourself but instead of a smile, people now greet you with a frown followed by a laugh. Funny, right? Wrong. Not funny for Kovid Kapoor. Went outside India for the first time since COVID and got a bunch of people amused by my name.Future foreign trips are going to be fun!

Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Kovid Kapoor never knew that he was up for an amusing ride when a virus outbreak was first reported in China two years back in 2019. As the virus spread rapidly raging across the world, global health body World Health Organization (WHO) announced 'Covid-19' as the name of this new disease on February 11, 2020 and that was it - Kovid Kapoor's facepalm moment! As the pandemic spread to almost every corner of every country in the world, Kovid's life started changing too with fun encounters almost every day. From Starbucks to Gmail, from Bengaluru to Sri Lanka - Kovid Kapoor's name has left both people and AI (artificial intelligence) perplexed. AI on Gmail even suggested Covid as the correct spelling of his name.

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