news: 世衛改用希臘字母命名變種冠病病毒

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/world/story20210601-1150858

依照新命名係統，最早在英國發現的B117變種病毒將改稱Alpha變種病毒，最早在南非發現的B1351將改稱Beta變種病毒，最早在巴西發現的P1將改稱Gamma變種病毒，而最早在印度發現的B1617有兩個分支——屬於須關切變種的B16172將改稱Delta變種病毒，屬於待觀察變種的B16171將改稱Kappa。

 

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/05/31/covid-variants-world-health-organization-greek-alphabet/5284698001/

'It's the right thing to do': WHO renames COVID variants with Greek letter names to avoid confusion, stigma

 

 

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https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/

Variants of Concern

WHO label	Pango   lineage	GISAID clade/lineage	Nextstrain   clade	Earliest documented   samples	Date of designation
Alpha	B.1.1.7	GRY (formerly GR/501Y.V1)	20I/S:501Y.V1	United Kingdom,   Sep-2020	18-Dec-2020
Beta	B.1.351	GH/501Y.V2	20H/S:501Y.V2	South Africa,   May-2020	18-Dec-2020
Gamma	P.1	GR/501Y.V3	20J/S:501Y.V3	Brazil,   Nov-2020	11-Jan-2021
Delta	B.1.617.2	G/452R.V3	21A/S:478K	India,   Oct-2020

 

 

Variants of Interest

WHO label	Pango   lineage	GISAID clade/lineage	Nextstrain   clade	Earliest documented   samples	Date of designation
Epsilon	B.1.427/B.1.429	GH/452R.V1	20C/S.452R	United States of America,    Mar-2020	5-Mar-2021
Zeta	P.2	GR	20B/S.484K	Brazil,   Apr-2020	17-Mar-2021
Eta	B.1.525	G/484K.V3	20A/S484K	Multiple countries,  Dec-2020	17-Mar-2021
Theta	P.3	GR	20B/S:265C	Philippines,   Jan-2021	24-Mar-2021
Iota	B.1.526	GH	20C/S:484K	United States of America,   Nov-2020	24-Mar-2021
Kappa	B.1.617.1	G/452R.V3	21A/S:154K	India,   Oct-2020	4-Apr-2021

所有跟帖： 

• 新名叫啥呢？ -桃花好運- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/31/2021 postreply 18:42:57

• 政治正確，很好很欣慰。 -TBz- ♂ (185 bytes) () 05/31/2021 postreply 20:50:02

• 中國的甲乙丙肝英文不就叫肝炎ABC嗎？ -greennew- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/31/2021 postreply 21:23:59

• 那是過去的錯誤，下次一定要用甲乙丙，不得使用洋字母。 -TBz- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2021 postreply 07:47:56

• So confusing! -美東JJ- ♀ (55 bytes) () 06/01/2021 postreply 15:10:02