{"id":29430,"date":"2021-06-01T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29430"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:06:56","slug":"who-renames-indian-variant-covid-delta-as-all-mutant-strains-are-rebranded-to-avoid-geographic-stigma-while-health-chiefs-say-g7-must-donate-jabs-to-poorer-nations-to-beat-new-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/01\/who-renames-indian-variant-covid-delta-as-all-mutant-strains-are-rebranded-to-avoid-geographic-stigma-while-health-chiefs-say-g7-must-donate-jabs-to-poorer-nations-to-beat-new-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO renames Indian variant &#8216;Covid Delta&#8217; as all mutant strains are rebranded to avoid &#8216;geographic stigma&#8217;, while health chiefs say G7 must donate jabs to poorer nations to beat new adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27346\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant-770x700.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant-500x455.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant-360x327.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a id=\"mol-1f49af60-c25a-11eb-958f-39116aec90aa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/world-health-organization\/index.html\">World Health Organisation<\/a> has announced plans to rename Covid variants with Greek alphabet letters in a bid to lose the &#8216;stigma&#8217; of geographic titles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9638063\/WHO-renames-Indian-variant-Covid-Delta-Kent-strain-Alpha-mutant-bugs-rebranded.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The\u00a0World Health Organisation has announced plans to rename Covid variants with Greek alphabet letters in a bid to lose the &#8216;stigma&#8217; of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nigerian-variant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29431,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430\/revisions\/29431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}