The WHO has designated the B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 COVID-19 variants, which were initially detected in India, as ‘Kappa’ and ‘Delta,’ respectively, in the same way that it has called other coronavirus variations using Greek alphabets to ease public debates and eliminate stigma from the names.
The World Health Organization’s decision came nearly three weeks after India objected to the B.1.617 mutant of the novel coronavirus being referred to as a “Indian Variant” in media reports, with the Union Health Ministry pointing out that the UN’s top health organ did not use the term “Indian” in its document.
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