Speculation has arisen over the World Health Organisation’s decision to skip two letters in the Greek alphabet when naming the new Covid variant. Yesterday the WHO announced it had named the new covid ...

The World Health Organization said on Monday that it has assigned new "labels" to key coronavirus variants so the public can refer to them by letters of the Greek alphabet instead of where the variant ...

Several social media posts have questioned the convention adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for naming new COVID-19 variants and speculated over whether it avoided letters of the Greek ...

The World Health Organization announced the new names Monday. The WHO said some scientists said the naming of strains had been complicated. Examples of the naming of the South African variant included ...

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 realm ...

How does Plato's references to the Greek alphabet help us to work out where Atlantis really was? This article examines the evidence.

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 ...

Covid variants should be named after letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid "stigmatising" the countries which first reported them, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Under the proposed ...