GENEVA (AFP): Covid-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization announced Monday (May 31).
The new system applies to variants of concern -- the most troubling of which four are in circulation -- and the second-level variants of interest being tracked.
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