Submitted on Thursday 13th May 2021
Rejected on Friday 21st May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
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.
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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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This is a matter for individual media organisations and journalists, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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