Coronavirus variants have been renamed with letters of the Greek alphabet following criticism of the way they have been labelled up until now.
Under a new system revealed by the World Health Organisation , the Kent variant will now be known as Alpha, theTheir scientific names - B.1.1.7, B.1.617.2 and B.1.351 - had been considered too complicated to remember, but there were also concerns about referring to them by the locations where they were discovered.Yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.
Typical WHO meddling again - why not just stick with alphanumeric codes. People will always refer to them by origin regardless WHO GregHuntMP
So now they're all Greek variants?
Why not plain old 'COVID-19 VARIANT'. Honestly. 'Oh what a web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!'
Chinese virus!
Bullshit variant should cover them all.
Why is Chinese variant missing from list. That was the start of all this.
A good idea?
O give us a break
What is the new name of UK variant?
WHO - a day late and a dollar short yet again!
I don’t think there going to let this go.
Trying to confuse everyone, and to help hide the truth
Y do we have 2ultra right wing women reviewing the paper
So we don’t stigmatise people or places, new COVID variants will be named after school sandpits. This is Claremont Middle School Long Jump pit from 1989. Fucking CrackerLackers COVID
Bloody Covid is now non binary!
I'd like to think some people in Kent are quite chuffed at the thought of being well known globally. But, mostly, people just don't care (except for the Chinese), as they are sensible enough to know it is just a place name.
WHO must be bored out of their minds. I wonder how many hours it took to play 'name the variant' game 🤔
They clearly have nothing else important to do
You and bbc really are doing my head in now with your crappy news .
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