COVID-19 variants given new names using Greek alphabet, WHO says By Emma Farge Reuters Posted June 1, 2021 6:59 am Updated June 1, 2021 7:00 am ...

On May 31 the WHO announced a new system that would be used to identify different variants of Covid. This system they settled on was to name each individual strain after a letter from the Greek ...

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet had been a fairly innocuous entity for 2,500 years. But in just two weeks, it became notorious. Omicron moved beyond classical philosophy texts, beyond the ...

As the variants mutated, from Alpha to Delta and then Omicron, people began taking note of the 24 Greek letters. Omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega is the last.

The naming of the new coronavirus variant Omicron is causing some confusion. Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to name coronavirus ...

Just as the English alphabet groups the three crazy letters—“X,” “Y,” and “Z”—at the end, Greek saves some very special characters for last.