By Sola Ogundipe
Irked by the series of criticisms and negative attention over the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Indian government has banned the use of the terminology “Indian variant of COVID-19” and instructed the removal of such content from social media.
An order by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology weekend instructed social media platforms to remove all the content that names refer to, or implies Indian variant of coronavirus immediately.
The statement by the IT ministry pointed out that the variant that was first discovered…
