It's all Greek... sort of: how the coronavirus variants got their names | The World

The Omicron variant of coronavirus is named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, so it may be a small comfort that there have been many more before it. But why do we hear about some variants more than others? And why were a couple of Greek letters skipped over when naming the latest one? Manny Tsigas explains.

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