‘Corona beer virus’ searches surge as China coronavirus spreads

As cases of the novel coronavirus spread across the globe, so has interest in two unusual search terms – “corona beer virus” and “beer virus”.From the United States to Cambodia, and even in Israel, Ireland and Singapore, internet users seem to be confusing the Mexican lager Corona for the virus.According to Google Trends, the first searches for “corona beer virus” started on January 9, the day the World Health Organisation (WHO) said a string of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, the capital of…