GENEVA, May 31 (Reuters) - Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma.

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 is implementing the new system to avoid negatively impacting the countries where the strains were first identified Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, ...

Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet in a bid to simplify discussion and pronunciation, while avoiding stigma. The World Health ...

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 ...

GENEVA (KXAN) — As we approach 2021 Hurricane Season, the World Meteorological Organization’s Hurricane Committee has made some changes to storm naming going forward. The WMO and National Hurricane ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. According to a press release, the Hurricane Committee of the WMO, which features members from national meteorological and ...

They’re ‘distracting and confusing,’ says the World Meteorological Organization They’re ‘distracting and confusing,’ says the World Meteorological Organization Justine Calma is a senior science ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Over the past couple of weeks, more and more people have asked, “Why do they only use 21 letters in the alphabet when naming tropical systems in the Atlantic?” Let’s begin ...