The new variant of SARS-Cov2 won't be called the Nu variant after all, nor the Xi variant either. Meet the Omicron variant.

A WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi of the Greek alphabet had been deliberately avoided. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word "new" and Xi had been skipped to "avoid stigmatising a region", they said.

All pandemics inherently political!

— Paul Nuki (@PaulNuki) November 26, 2021