The World Health Organization began naming the variants after Greek letters to avoid public confusion and stigma. By Vimal Patel Markets plunged on Friday, hope of taming the coronavirus dimmed and a ...

In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

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 ...

Anagrams aside, the new coronavirus variant’s name follows an established pattern of naming variants after letters in the Greek alphabet. Pedestrians wearing face masks against the coronavirus walk ...

Social media users correctly noted, however, that the organization skipped two letters in doing so, leading to questions about the move. Here's what we know about how omicron ended up with its name.

An unusual side effect of the coronavirus is the regular appearance of the Greek alphabet in newspaper headlines. The highly contagious Omicron variant has broken through in more ways than one: the ...

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 ...