‘Hu’ crosses Greek alphabet order, naming new strain of COVID-19 Omicron to dodge ‘species Xi’ avoiding ‘issue with China


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‘The World Health Organization (WHO) has established the naming convention for emerging coronavirus. Named in Greek alphabetical order for the public to easily understand the evolution of Alpha (Alpha), Beta (Beta), Gamma (Gamma), Delta (Delta) and… for the name COVID-19 The newest mutant is named OmicronIt’s a naming convention that skips two letters. Why? Using the Greek alphabetical naming convention, South Africa’s terrifying new mutant covid-19 will be called NU, which the WHO thinks will confuse the word ‘new’, meaning new. The next character is even more terrifyingly complex, ‘Xi’, which in transliteration is similar to the surname of China’s...