The term ‘Omicron’ does not translate to ‘end time’ despite claims on social media in the wake of the newly discovered COVID-19 variant. One screenshot of a tweet that has since been shared on ...
Social media users have accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of bending to China’s will after it skipped the Greek alphabet letter “Xi” and named the new COVID-19 variant Omicron. Driving the ...
Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are named after letters of the Greek alphabet and there is no evidence that the Omicron variant is a cryptic name that means “non-existing”, as claimed in a meme being ...