{"id":131477,"date":"2021-11-29T21:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-omicron-the-new-covid-19-variant-got-its-name"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:25:40","slug":"how-omicron-the-new-covid-19-variant-got-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-omicron-the-new-covid-19-variant-got-its-name","title":{"rendered":"How Omicron, the New Covid-19 Variant, Got Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-omicron-the-new-covid-19-variant-got-its-name2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Markets plunged on Friday, hope of taming the coronavirus dimmed and a new term entered the pandemic lexicon: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/26\/world\/europe\/coronavirus-omicron-variant.html\" title=\"\">Omicron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 variant that emerged in South Africa was named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>The naming system, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/31-05-2021-who-announces-simple-easy-to-say-labels-for-sars-cov-2-variants-of-interest-and-concern\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced by the World Health Organization in May<\/a>, makes public communication about variants easier and less confusing, the agency and experts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets plunged on Friday, hope of taming the coronavirus dimmed and a new term entered the pandemic lexicon: Omicron. The Covid-19 variant that emerged in South Africa was named after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. The naming system, announced by the World Health Organization in May, makes public communication about variants easier and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}