Deltacron: This is the name of a new variant of Coronavirus that has been discovered in Cyprus, Middle East.
It would be a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants. For now, no information is available on its dangerousness, but it would be more prevalent in hospitalized patients due to COVID-19. “We will see in the future if this variant is more pathological or contagious,” said Cyprus health authorities.
25 cases of SARS-COV-2 Coronavirus infection have been identified by the Cypriot health officials who say they are seeing similar traits to Delta and Omicron.
“Currently, there are co-infections of omicron and delta. We have found a variant that is a combination of both,” explained Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biology at the University of Cyprus and director of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology, quoted by the Spanish media NIUS.
However, the professor believes that Deltacron should not be as dangerous as Delta and contagious as omicron. “We will see in the future if this variant is more pathological or contagious or if it will prevail” over the two previous variants.
Samples from patients diagnosed with Deltacron were sent on January 7 to the GISAID project of the Pasteur Institute based in Munich, Germany, according to the NIUS news agency.
The Center for Infectious Disease Control (CDC) has not yet officially commented on the new discovery, but arrangements have reportedly already been made to analyze the data submitted to the Pasteur Institute, which is working in conjunction with DCD.
Discovered in late 2019, the Coronavirus has already claimed the lives of more than five million people and infected 305 million others worldwide. The United States is the most affected country with over 836 thousand deaths and 60 million infections followed by India 484 thousand deaths, Brazil: 620, England: 150 thousand, and France: 123 thousand.
Several vaccines have been created, the most famous of which are: Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson&Johnson, and AstraZeneca. Injections that are proving to be very effective against the spread of the pandemic. But the vaccination rate remains very low. Only 50% of the population have accepted to be vaccinated. 9.3 billion doses have been administered of which 3.9 billion people are fully vaccinated out of a population of more than 7.7 billion.
Since the creation of vaccines, mortality rates have increased dramatically in places with low vaccination rates such as the United States, Brazil, India, Great Britain, and France.
In Haiti, a flu and fever phenomenon has been detected throughout the country. But the health authorities are not able to confirm or deny if it is the pandemic Coronavirus.
It must be said that very little scientific data is available on COVID-19 in Haiti.
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