Covid variants renamed Alpha, Beta and Delta to avoid ‘stigmatising’ countries of origin, says WHO
Many variants of Sars-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – have been identified around the world.
They are usually tagged with a name depending on where they were first spotted by genetic sequencing.And naming them by place can lead to problems - as hate crime has becomeAnti-Asian hate crimes have been linked to rhetoric that blames China for the emergence and spread of the coronavirus.or the "kung flu".However, variants are more likely to arise in places where there is high circulation of the coronavirus - for example India and Brazil.
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