Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for National Danish Radio’s Orientation programme about the stigma of naming COVID-19 variants after specific countries. The World Health Organization has said it is not acceptable to refer to corona variants as "The Indian Variant", because it stigmatises individual countries. Dr.
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