Public health officials in recent days have raised alarms over a new variant of the coronavirus that could fuel a global surge of COVID-19 cases with "severe consequences," the World Health ...

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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 ...

An unusual side effect of the coronavirus is the regular appearance of the Greek alphabet in newspaper headlines. The highly contagious Omicron variant has broken through in more ways than one: the ...