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  1. Using this guide
  2. Clinically extremely vulnerable
  3. Coronavirus and COVID-19
  4. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  5. Deaths and COVID-19
  6. Furlough
  7. Local lockdowns and restrictions
  8. Lockdown
  9. Long COVID
  10. New variants of the coronavirus
  11. NHS Test and Trace
  12. Outbreak or pandemic
  13. Pre-coronavirus and pre-lockdown
  14. Quarantine
  15. R number
  16. Self Employment Income Support Scheme Grants
  17. Self-isolation
  18. Shielding
  19. Social distancing
  20. Spread
  21. Support bubble
  22. Vaccines and vaccinations 
  23. Waves

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New variants of the coronavirus

There are different variants of COVID-19 that have emerged throughout the coronavirus pandemic. In June 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Greek letters would be used to name different variants, instead of referring to them by the country they originated in. 

Letters will be used to refer to variants of concern and variants of interest, and there is a full list of names available on the WHO website.