FOR a while now we have been hearing the terms “strains and variants” of SARSCOV2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Especially with variants there have been a lot of terms that are not just confusing to someone not so interested in medical jargon or anyone with little patience.Other than being complicated names, there has been a danger of causing stigma and indeed stigma has been caused against people of the country bearing the name of the said variant because it has until most recently been acceptable to also name variants based on their country of origin.The most common ones being the “UK variant,” for the variant that is believed to have started from the UK, the “South African variant” believed to have originated from South Africa, the “Brazilian variant” one from believed to be from Brazil and now most recently the “Indian variant” thought to be from India and very soon we will be hearing […]
COVID-19 VARIANTS RENAMED
