Rejected petition Restrain calling the B 1.617.2 as Indian Variant

WHO named the novel corona virus as COVID 19 to avoid any regional stigma ; The same principle should be extended to the corona virus variants too. So calling the new variant (B 1.617.2) as Indian variant is not right.

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Kindly restrain the media from calling the B.1.617.2 as Indian variant and call it in a region agnostic name.

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Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

This is a matter for individual media organisations and journalists, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 13 May 2021
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