The WHO is jogging out of letters for variants
There are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega. So much there have been 13 variants that have received a letter from the Greek alphabet to make them simpler to pronounce due to the require to tell the public about their potential chance and keep away from associating them with any person nation.
Two letters however had been skipped in excess of to get to the fifteenth letter Omicron, leaving just 9 additional and the pandemic not wanting probable to go away as soon as anyone would hope.