The World Health Organization (WHO) rolled out a new naming system for tracking COVID-19 variants that the agency says creates "easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatizing" labels for the new mutations.

In total, there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet. However, WHO did not disclose what would follow after all the letters are used. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

"They are simple, easy to say and remember, and are based on the Greek alphabet, a system that was chosen following wide consultation and a review of several potential systems," said Maria Van ...

In late 2020, variants of COVID-19 began to emerge across the world. This public health agency began labeling them using letters of the Greek alphabet in May 2021.

When the World Health Organization announced in May that it would begin labeling important coronavirus variants by using letters of the Greek alphabet, the rationale was that the variant names ...

The WHO, which gave Covid-19 its name to avoid its association with the Chinese city of Wuhan, announced it was looking at new names for variants last month. A panel of scientists considered several ...

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