{"id":518167,"date":"2021-11-26T22:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518167"},"modified":"2021-11-26T22:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T03:14:27","slug":"w-h-o-skips-greek-letter-xi-in-naming-new-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518167","title":{"rendered":"W.H.O. skips Greek letter \u2018Xi\u2019 in naming new Variant\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The World Health Organization announced Friday it was naming a new Covid-19 variant \u201cOmicron,\u201d skipping over a politically sensitive letter of the Greek alphabet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To date, \u201cNu\u201d and \u201cXi\u201d are the only letters the WHO has opted against using. Officials didn\u2019t provide an explanation, though the organization has been famously sensitive about expressing deference toward China, where Covid-19 began the province of Wuhan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenfreepress.com\/breaking\/w-h-o-skips-greek-letter-xi-in-naming-new-variant\/\">https:\/\/citizenfreepress.com\/breaking\/w-h-o-skips-greek-letter-xi-in-naming-new-variant\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization announced Friday it was naming a new Covid-19 variant \u201cOmicron,\u201d skipping over a politically sensitive letter of the Greek alphabet. &#8220;To date, \u201cNu\u201d and \u201cXi\u201d are the only letters the WHO has opted against using. Officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}