From Delta to Omicron - is 2022 the year of hope?

There are many other letters in the Greek alphabet. And we must pray that we do not get to become familiar with them.

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An introduction to alpha, delta, and omicron is enough, thank you.

Alpha – first seen in Kent, and which drove the second wave. Delta, first identified in India. And now omicron, first noted in South Africa.

As it happens some further mutations have booked their places with other letters in the alphabet, but the above are the big three with which we have mainly had to contend and combat over two of the most trying years in modern British history.

Here we are, with things as bad as ever in terms of infections. Who would have guessed that when the first waves of the pandemic crashed onto these shores in 2020?