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mattyj
What happened to the UK strain or the South African strain? Gone? You know it’s respiratory virus season in the Southern Hemisphere right? …It’s our turn
The WHO has renamed the multiple different strains of COVID-19 circulating around the world to make them easier to understand.
Under the changes, the four most concerning variants take on the first four letters of the Greek alphabet — Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta.
Those were previously known as the UK variant, the South African variant, the Brazilian variant and the Indian variant.
From ABC News, The 'Prune won't let me post the actual URL.