Starting this year, the Greek alphabet will no longer be used if we run beyond 21 named storms. We will go back to the letter "A" with the second set of names.

The Greek alphabet is a millennia-spanning marvel that didn’t necessarily need this boost in visibility. But the world is now getting a lesson in Greek, one unpleasant coronavirus variant at a time.

By Faith Karimi, CNN The naming of the new coronavirus variant Omicron is causing some confusion. Since May the World Health Organization has been using letters of the Greek alphabet, in order, to ...

Pi is the next letter in the Greek alphabet. The WHO would not say whether it intends to use it. But they did add, there is no plan in place on what to do if they reach the end of the Greek alphabet.

The World Health Organization (WHO) named the COVID-19 variants after Greek letters because it wanted to avoid confusion with the scientific names of the variants and prevent discrimination that ...

In doing so, the WHO decided to skip over two letters in the Greek alphabet: nu and xi. The reasons for doing this remained a bit of a mystery until the WHO itself clarified the issue on Saturday.