Fortunately the Greek alphabet only has 24 letters.
From the Financial Times, July 2:
Lambda, the latest coronavirus variant to draw the attention of the World Health Organization, is worrying officials in Latin America and puzzling scientists because of its “unusual” set of mutations. Formerly known as C.37, the Lambda variant was first detected late last year in Peru, and has since spread to 27 countries, including the UK. Public Health England this week said it had been identified “across” the country, although the number of cases it had identified remained small. Pablo Tsukayama, a doctor in molecular microbiology at the Cayetano Heredia university in Peru’s capital Lima, said that when medics first noted the variant in December, it accounted for “just one in every 200 samples”.
“By March, however, it accounted for about 50 per cent of samples in Lima and now it’s about 80 per cent. That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than other variants,” he said. According to the WHO, Lambda accounted for 82 per cent of new Covid-19 cases in May and June in Peru, which has the world’s highest coronavirus mortality rate....
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For our readers who do not have an FT subscription the powers-that-be at the pinkun are still lifting the paywall on their coronavirus reporting.
And leave it to one of the FT readers to cut directly to the chase:
does it has to do with copper futures contracts ??
The answer to that was: yes, early on, as the mine workers fell ill and often died.
Now Freeport and Southern and Anglo Am. and the rest of the gang are more concerned with:
Peru’s Castillo expects mining firms to accept ‘prudent’ tax changes, adviser says
That's Reuters on Peru's new socialist Presidente, July 7.
