Professor Jonathan Turley, a criminal attorney and professor at George Washington University, speculated that the WHO “is again avoiding any discomfort for the Chinese government” in skipping the “Xi” letter and naming it Omicron.
“The new variant was expected to be Nu but any additional variant would then be Xi, which happens to be the name of the Chinese leader,” he wrote on Twitter.
Interesting.
https://www.opindia.com/2021/11/who-names-new-covid-19-variant-omicron-skips-nu-and-xi-to-know-why/
The new variant was expected to be Nu but any additional variant would then be Xi, which happens to be the name of the Chinese leader
