What's the pronunciation of Omicron? ɑ? m？ kr \u？ N, Pinyin pronunciation: à o mü kè ró ng, the World Health Organization (WHO) named the new and new crown pneumonia mutant strain found in South Africa as "Omicron" in Greek letters. The name of Omicron was decided by WHO, not what it wanted to name.
It is understood that this is the fifth variation of COVID-19 epidemic since the global outbreak. The first mutation was discovered in Britain in 2020, and the second mutation appeared at the end of 2020, and was named Beta.
The third mutation appeared in 65438+February, 2020, and was detected in Amazon, Brazil, and was named Gamma. Delta is a variant that appeared in India in the first half of 20021and caused several rounds of local epidemic in China. However, Omicron strain has a higher load and is more infectious than Delta virus.
In May this year, WHO announced the naming rules of COVID-19 varieties, and unified the mutated COVID-19 into Greek letters. Look up the Greek alphabet if you don't believe me. For example, alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta are all Greek letters.