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The Latest: COVID-19 variants to be labeled as Greek letters

| May 31, 2021 2:30 PM

GENEVA — The World Health Organization is announcing a new nomenclature for the COVID-19 variants that were previously — and somewhat uncomfortably — known either by their technical letter-number codes or by the countries in which they first appeared.

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