The name given by the researcher, not the WHO. 🦠 engineering
Countries around the world are struggling to contain the infection caused by the Omicron variant. Close to two million new cases were reported across the globe yesterday, the Bloomberg report added. Last week, we had reported a new variant dubbed IHU that was found in patients in France. While it had
, it was unlikely to spread across the globe, experts had said. But the news of a variant that contains signatures of Delta and Omicron, both known to be highly transmissible variants will have many people worried. , a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology in the country, found the combined variant in 25 patients.
In an interview with a local TV station, Kostrikis clarified that the variant they had found was seen more in individuals who had been hospitalized due to COVID-19, and the sequences were now sent to GISAID, a database of genomic data of influenza virus and now coronaviruses. Though, Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College, dismissed the finding as a result of contamination or co-infection with Delta and Omicron variants in the patients.
Small update: the Cypriot 'Deltacron' sequences reported by several large media outlets look to be quite clearly contamination - they do not cluster on a phylogenetic tree and have a whole Artic primer sequencing amplicon of Omicron in an otherwise Delta backbone.
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