Omicron Chosen As Politically Correct Word For Highly Infectious Delta Variant By WHO

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 The new variant of Corona virus is now being called Omicron and it is being suspected that it is resistant to the current lot of vaccines doing rounds worldwide.

However pharmaceutical companies are now determined to improvise the current vaccine to create a shield of protection against the new fast mutating variant.

Named by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the health organization says that classified it as a highly transmissible virus of concern, the same category that includes the predominant delta variant, which is still a scourge driving higher cases of sickness and death in Europe and parts of the United States.

The new variant started its spread from South Africa, due to which UK has already banned travel from four of its countries. The actual risks are still to be ascertained about the new highly infectious fast mutating variant. But early evidence suggests it carries an increased risk of reinfection compared with other highly transmissible variants.

That means people who contracted COVID-19 and recovered could be subject to catching it again. It could take weeks to know if current vaccines are less effective against it. In sounding politically correct, the WHO purposely decided to call this variant in a Greek letter, avoiding the ones falling before it. Experts maintain that WHO decided to avoid Nu as this alphabet is sounds like English word new. And WHO avoided Xi so that the people do not take it as a reference to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Omicron, which is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin, is the 15th letter of Greek alphabet. Currently, the cases are erupted in Australia, and Singapore has its radars tuned to see if there are any cases there as well. 

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