Concerns have risen that labelling variants by their locations could fuel hate crimes following attacks against Chinese people.
Coronavirus variants have been renamed with letters of the Greek alphabet following criticism of the way they have been labelled up until now.
Under a new system revealed by the World Health Organisation , the Kent variant will now be known as Alpha, theTheir scientific names - B.1.1.7, B.1.617.2 and B.1.351 - had been considered too complicated to remember, but there were also concerns about referring to them by the locations where they were discovered.Yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.
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