World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced a new naming convention for the coronavirus variants of concern, in a move aimed at eliminating the potential stigma around places where those mutant COVID-19 strains were first identified.The new convention uses letters from the Greek alphabet to identify the various variants, which up to this point have been identified with a clunky string of letters and numbers — or by the problematic convention of referring to the geographical origins of where they first emerged.
Lit cigarette, hand sanitizer ignite major car fire in Maryland The WHO says it came up with the new labels after several months of discussion and criticism around some nations being stigmatized for identifying new strains.The.