L’OMS propose d’utiliser l’alphabet grec pour nommer les variants du Covid-19
L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a annoncé le 31 mai utiliser des vocables grecs «faciles à dire» pour catégoriser les variants de coronavirus. L’objectif est de remplacer les désignations de pays comme le font habituellement les médias.
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Today, @WHO announces new, easy-to-say labels for #SARSCoV2 Variants of Concern (VOCs) & Interest (VOIs)
— Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) May 31, 2021
They will not replace existing scientific names, but are aimed to help in public discussion of VOI/VOC
Read more here (will be live soon):
https://t.co/VNvjJn8Xcv#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/L9YOfxmKW7
No country should be stigmatized for detecting and reporting variants.
— Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) May 31, 2021
Globally, we need robust surveillance for variants, incl epi, molecular and sequencing to be carried out and shared. We need to continue to do all we can to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 #COVID19 @WHO
Zeta-Eta-Theta? Easy to say (?), easy to mix up. And what are we doing when we are running out of letters? Sorry, not going to use this. PANGO was fine.
— Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) May 31, 2021
Absolutely, we working to offer a solution to help with the stigma aspect. All of this is ALOT to take in: a lot of information and amazing scientists and public health professionals working hard to make sense of this all.
— Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) May 31, 2021