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Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

No, the WHO only assigns greek letters to Variants of Concern which this isn't (yet). It was named by a scientist on twitter after an asteroid that sounds close to pi and rho (which would be the next Greek letters if it becomes a VoC)

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