If the organization determines that B.1.1.529 is a variant of interest or concern, it will be assigned a Greek letter name—just like Delta, Alpha and Beta before it. The B.1.1.529 variant is ...

So after a new variant with the unwieldy scientific name of B.1.1.529 was discovered last week in South Africa, observers might have expected WHO to name it after the next Greek letter on the list ...

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For those who use the Roman alphabet, the Greek alphabet consists of a few letters that are readily identifiable: A (alpha), B (beta) and K (kappa), for instance, all look and sound as they would ...

The World Health Organization said on Monday that it has assigned new “labels” to key coronavirus variants so the public can refer to them by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of where the ...

The WHO has a list of existing “variants of concern” and “variants of interest” that have been given new labels under the Greek alphabet naming scheme. “Alpha” refers to B.1.1.7 ...

"So, scientists went to naming viruses like B 117. Well, that's a little hard to remember. So, to make it easier and clearer, we went to the Greek alphabet.” A spokesperson for the WHO tells the ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

So after a new variant with the unwieldy scientific name of B.1.1.529 was discovered last week in South Africa, observers might have expected WHO to name it after the next Greek letter on the list ...

Examples of the naming of the South African variant included alphanumeric strings such as B.1.351, 501Y.V2 and ... with additional strains following the Greek alphabet. If all of the Greek letters ...