The World Health Organisation (WHO) made the decision several months ago to name strains of Covid after letters from the Greek alphabet. For example, we currently have the Alpha, Beta and most ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a naming system for variants of the coronavirus that uses letters of the Greek alphabet. Researchers had been calling for an alternative naming system ...

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 ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...