WHO Classification does not have a Chinese Variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Concern and Interest List

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WHO announces simple, easy-to-say labels for SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern?

31 May 2021, Geneva | WHO has assigned simple, easy to say and remember labels for key variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using letters of the Greek alphabet.

These labels were chosen after wide consultation and a review of many potential naming systems. WHO convened an expert group of partners from around the world to do so, including experts who are part of existing naming systems, nomenclature and virus taxonomic experts, researchers and national authorities.

WHO will assign labels for those variants that are designated as Variants of Interest or Variants of Concern by WHO. These will be posted on the WHO website.

These labels do not replace existing scientific names (e.g. those assigned by GISAID, Nextstrain and Pango), which convey important scientific information and will continue to be used in research.

While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say and recall, and are prone to misreporting. As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory. To avoid this and to simplify public communications, WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels.

See the new labels here: https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants

The entire detail is as if this Pandemic has nothing to do with China, is it a deliberate attempt to remove the WUHAN name from the pandemic source? Avoiding stigmatizing and rubbing of the documented history of Facts is not the same thing. WHO must mention where the original SAR-Cov2 originated?

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