The World Health Organization (WHO) rolled out a new naming system for tracking COVID-19 variants that the agency says creates "easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatizing" labels for the new mutations.
Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have been assigned letters from the Greek alphabet in a bid to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma. The WHO says the ...
With coronavirus variants sweeping the globe, the World Health Organization has devised a less technical way of describing them than their scientific, number-heavy names -- using the Greek alphabet.