{"id":28186,"date":"2021-11-28T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28186"},"modified":"2021-11-28T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:00:19","slug":"lambda-mu-omicron-why-the-who-skipped-nu-and-xi-to-name-latest-coronavirus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=28186","title":{"rendered":"Lambda, Mu &#8230; Omicron? Why the WHO skipped \u2018Nu\u2019 and \u2018Xi\u2019 to name latest coronavirus variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGoing by the Greek alphabet, the next names should have been \u201cNu\u201d and \u201cXi\u201d but the WHO skipped them and went on to call the latest coronavirus variant \u201cOmicron\u201d.But why? Was it to avoid similarities with Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s name?Before the World Health Organization named Omicron as a variant \u201cof concern\u201d on Friday, the last identified variant was the Mu variant, named after the 12th out of 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.Nu and Xi, the 13th and 14th letters, were next in line.But in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3157678\/lambda-mu-omicron-why-who-skipped-nu-and-xi-name-latest?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGoing by the Greek alphabet, the next names should have been \u201cNu\u201d and \u201cXi\u201d but the WHO skipped them and went on to call&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}