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Check out "Overview of Variants in Countries" page too, it's quite cool:

Wondering how you made the connection between '21K' and Omicron. 'Omicron' isn't even mentioned in that page... is 'Omicron' a media nickname, maybe?

>Variant: 21K also known as B.1.1.529

It's a project of one person (Emma Hodcroft), she didn't update page yet, but WHO named B.1.1.529 as Omicron yesterday:

Here is her thread on creating this page:

They get assigned greek letters by the WHO when they become important enough for such honors. Heard of something called "delta"?

The name was assigned yesterday, so the website hasn't added it. They have them in parentheses on the left side menu.

The first link is now broken. The page seems to have been moved to https://covariants.org/variants/21K.Omicron