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.

What’s in a COVID-19 variant name? Thanks to the World Health Organization (WHO), Greek letters. The global health organization's new system uses the Greek alphabet in a standardized naming convention ...

Covid variants should be named after letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid "stigmatising" the countries which first reported them, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Under the proposed ...

With coronavirus variants sweeping the globe, the World Health Organization has devised a less technical way of describing them than their scientific, number-heavy names -- using the Greek alphabet.