Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are named after letters of the Greek alphabet and there is no evidence that the Omicron variant is a cryptic name that means “non-existing”, as claimed in a meme being ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization skipped a couple of letters in the Greek alphabet when it named the omicron variant. That fueled all sorts of speculation and claims on social media about why the ...

(CNN) — The BA.2 virus — a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant — isn’t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting ...

WHEN THE World Health Organisation (WHO) decided in May 2021 to use the Greek alphabet to name “variants of concern” of SARS-CoV-2, it did so for reasons of simplicity. The first was Alpha, the second ...

The BA.2 variant of coronavirus is doing exactly what researchers predicted it would. After lab tests and real-world surveillance from the onslaught of cases in the United Kingdom, doctors in America ...

The latest menace to the world now has a name: omicron. The World Health Organization has named the new South African COVID-19 variant for the Greek letter, a clear indication experts believe the ...

Every few months for the first two years of the pandemic the public learned the name of a new coronavirus variant that had emerged and was more adept at infecting us or causing severe disease. Ten ...