: With coronavirus variants getting new names, countries will hopefully stop stigmatising one another #IndiaNEWS The World Health Organization has announced a new naming system for the coronavirus that

With coronavirus variants getting new names, countries will hopefully stop stigmatising one another #IndiaNEWS
The World Health Organization has announced a new naming system for the coronavirus that uses Greek letters to refer to the different variants. For the variants of concern, B117 (the UK or Kent variant) will now be known as alpha, B1351 (South Africa) will be beta, P1 (Brazil) is gamma and B16172 (first found in India) delta.For the variants of interest, B1427/B1429 (United States) is epsilon, P2 (Brazil) is zeta, B1525 is eta, P3 (Philippines) is theta, B1526 (US) is iota and B16171 (discovered in India) is kappa. The hope is that this new system will end the stigmatising practice of naming the variants after where they were identified, with phrases such as the “Indian variant??? being dropped in favour of the “delta variant???.This is an important step. Using geographical names can stoke up racism and xenophobia. It also potentially disincentivises countries from hunting for new variants, as finding them may hurt their national image, as India has found with the B1617 variants. There is also no guarantee these geographical names are accurate either, as variants can easily spread before being discovered.Today WHO has announced a new naming system for key #COVID19 variants. The labels are based on the Greek alphabet (i.e. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc), making them...Read more

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