According to the WHO, they deliberately skipped nu (sounds too much like “new” in English) and xi (the -anglicized- surname of a LOT of people who don’t deserve to be saddled with a covid variant). That leaves nine more after Omicron. I guess that if we aren’t all killed off by the time we get to Omega, they’ll rename the currently most prevalent variant to Sars-cov-3 (Covid 22) version Alpha and go around again.
According to the WHO, they deliberately skipped nu (sounds too much like “new” in English) and xi (the -anglicized- surname of a LOT of people who don’t deserve to be saddled with a covid variant). That leaves nine more after Omicron. I guess that if we aren’t all killed off by the time we get to Omega, they’ll rename the currently most prevalent variant to Sars-cov-3 (Covid 22) version Alpha and go around again.