{"id":1061375,"date":"2021-11-28T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061375"},"modified":"2021-11-28T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:29:32","slug":"world-health-organization-skips-over-naming-new-coronavirus-variant-xi-to-avoid-causing-offence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-health-organization-skips-over-naming-new-coronavirus-variant-xi-to-avoid-causing-offence-report\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization Skips Over Naming New Coronavirus Variant \u2018Xi\u2019 To Avoid Causing \u2018Offence\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworld-health-organization-skips-over-naming-new-coronavirus-variant-xi-to-avoid-causing-offence-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The World Health Organization (WHO) skipped over naming the coronavirus variant \u201cxi\u201d to avoid \u201ccausing\u201d offense to \u201cany cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-checking-207834730667\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The WHO has&nbsp;followed&nbsp;the&nbsp;Greek alphabet&nbsp;when naming variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and many people had expected the agency to label the latest variant nu, which comes after mu, a variant designated on Aug. 30. Instead, the WHO skipped over nu as well as xi, the next Greek letter in line \u2014 a move that many users on social media pointed out, while some questioned whether it was to avoid offending Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Nu\u2019 is too easily confounded with \u2018new,\u2019 and \u2018Xi\u2019 was not used because it is a common last name,\u201d the WHO said, adding that the agency\u2019s \u201cbest practices for naming disease suggest avoiding \u2018causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP\u2019s report did not provide any factual evidence pushing back on claims that the WHO skipped over naming the variant \u201cxi\u201d in an effort to \u201cavoid offending Chinese leader Xi Jinping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/new-covid-variant-called-omicron-not-xi-avoid-offending-chinese\/\">told<\/a> The Telegraph that the WHO avoided naming the variant the Xi variant \u201cto avoid stigmatizing the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post\u2019s Jon Levine noted that \u201cMu,\u201d which is also a common Chinese surname and the WHO had no problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/activities\/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants\/\">naming<\/a> one of the variants the \u201cMu\u201d variant.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And FWIW \u2014&nbsp;&#8220;Mu&#8221; is also a common Chinese surname and there was a Mu variant<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LevineJonathan\/status\/1464689639877455872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An online genealogy portal that purports to track the popularity of names claims that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forebears.io\/surnames\/mu\">Mu<\/a>\u201d is more common surname than \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/forebears.io\/surnames\/xi\">Xi<\/a>\u201d both around the world and in China with approximately 1,028,966 people having \u201cMu\u201d and 774,021 having \u201cXi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the pandemic, China and the far-left in the U.S. accused then-President Donald Trump of racism for referring to the coronavirus as the \u201cChinese virus,\u201d despite the fact that the coronavirus did come from China and numerous other diseases have been named after the places where they emerged.<\/p>\n<p>China has spread baseless conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/13\/world\/asia\/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html\">falsely claiming<\/a> that the virus originated with the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>China has been widely accused about lying about the origins of the pandemic, when it knew about the pandemic, and about the number of cases and deaths that the country has suffered from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete,\u201d Bloomberg News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-01\/china-concealed-extent-of-virus-outbreak-u-s-intelligence-says\">reported<\/a> last year, according to three U.S. officials that it spoke to. \u201cTwo of the officials said the report concludes that China\u2019s numbers are fake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News\u2019 report came after The Daily Mail reported that scientific advisers reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says\">told<\/a> British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the China downplayed the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak in their country and that the real number at the time could be \u201c15 to 40 times\u201d higher than what China has reported.<\/p>\n<p>China also has a history of lying about epidemics that originate within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, 2003, during the SARS outbreak, The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/21\/world\/the-sars-epidemic-epidemic-china-admits-underreporting-its-sars-cases.html\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that China admitted to under-reporting the total number of SARS cases:<\/p>\n<p>In a rare public admission of failure, if not deception, the Chinese government disclosed today that cases of a dangerous new respiratory disease were many times higher than previously reported, and stripped two top officials of their power. [\u2026]\n<p>Admitting to the existence of more than 200 previously undisclosed SARS patients in military hospitals, the official, Deputy Health Minister Gao Qiang, said that as of Friday Beijing had 339 confirmed cases of SARS and an additional 402 suspected cases.<\/p>\n<p>Ten days ago, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang said there were only 22 confirmed SARS cases in Beijing. Last Wednesday, the World Health Organization caused a stir here by estimating that there could be as many as 100 to 200 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) skipped over naming the coronavirus variant \u201cxi\u201d to avoid \u201ccausing\u201d offense to \u201cany cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.\u201dThe AP reported:The WHO has\u00a0followed\u00a0the\u00a0Greek alphabet\u00a0when naming variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and many people had expected the agency to label the latest variant nu, which comes after mu, a variant designated on Aug. 30. Instead, the WHO skipped over nu as well as xi, the next Greek letter in line \u2014 a move that many users on social media pointed out, while some questioned whether it was to avoid offending Chinese leader Xi Jinping.\u201c\u2018Nu\u2019 is too easily confounded with \u2018new,\u2019 and \u2018Xi\u2019 was not used because it is a common last name,\u201d the WHO said, adding that the agency\u2019s \u201cbest practices for naming disease suggest avoiding \u2018causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.\u2019\u201dThe AP\u2019s report did not provide any factual evidence pushing back on claims that the WHO skipped over naming the variant \u201cxi\u201d in an effort to \u201cavoid offending Chinese leader Xi Jinping.\u201dA source told The Telegraph that the WHO avoided naming the variant the Xi variant \u201cto avoid stigmatizing the region.\u201dThe New York Post\u2019s Jon Levine noted that \u201cMu,\u201d which is also a common Chinese surname and the WHO had no problem naming one of the variants the \u201cMu\u201d variant.And FWIW \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Mu&#8221; is also a common Chinese surname and there was a Mu variant\u2014 Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) November 27, 2021An online genealogy portal that purports to track the popularity of names claims that \u201cMu\u201d is more common surname than \u201cXi\u201d both around the world and in China with approximately 1,028,966 people having \u201cMu\u201d and 774,021 having \u201cXi.\u201dAt the start of the pandemic, China and the far-left in the U.S. accused then-President Donald Trump of racism for referring to the coronavirus as the \u201cChinese virus,\u201d despite the fact that the coronavirus did come from China and numerous other diseases have been named after the places where they emerged.China has spread baseless conspiracy theories about the origins of the virus, falsely claiming that the virus originated with the U.S. military.China has been widely accused about lying about the origins of the pandemic, when it knew about the pandemic, and about the number of cases and deaths that the country has suffered from it.\u201cChina\u2019s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete,\u201d Bloomberg News\u00a0reported last year, according to three U.S. officials that it spoke to. \u201cTwo of the officials said the report concludes that China\u2019s numbers are fake.\u201dBloomberg News\u2019 report came after The Daily Mail reported that scientific advisers reportedly told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the China downplayed the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak in their country and that the real number at the time could be \u201c15 to 40 times\u201d higher than what China has reported.China also has a history of lying about epidemics that originate within its borders.On April 21, 2003, during the SARS outbreak, The New York Times\u00a0reported\u00a0that China admitted to under-reporting the total number of SARS cases:In a rare public admission of failure, if not deception, the Chinese government disclosed today that cases of a dangerous new respiratory disease were many times higher than previously reported, and stripped two top officials of their power. [\u2026]Admitting to the existence of more than 200 previously undisclosed SARS patients in military hospitals, the official, Deputy Health Minister Gao Qiang, said that as of Friday Beijing had 339 confirmed cases of SARS and an additional 402 suspected cases.Ten days ago, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang said there were only 22 confirmed SARS cases in Beijing. Last Wednesday, the World Health Organization caused a stir here by estimating that there could be as many as 100 to 200 cases.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}