Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names

Image: PA Images Image: PA Images COVID-19 VARIANTS ARE are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization has announced.

Under the new system, the variants of concern take on the following names: the hitherto so-called British variant B.1.1.7 becomes Alpha; the B.1.351 first discovered in South Africa becomes Beta, while the Brazilian P.1 becomes Gamma. The lineage names such as B.1.1.7.2 will still continue to be used in scientific circles, for the mutation information that their name conveys.‘Stigmatising and discriminatory’

“To avoid this and to simplify public communications, WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels.” They lay some of the blame with former president Donald Trump, who repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as the “China virus”.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Easy to do when you're just making sh!t up.

Ohh thank god for that.

All part of the normalisation of Covid. Its here for good so.

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