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Cyprus Reportedly Discovers ‘Deltacron Variant’ A Combination Of Delta And Omicron

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Cyprus Reportedly Discovers ‘Deltacron Variant’ A Combination Of Delta And Omicron

A experimenter in Cyprus has found a strain of the coronavirus that incorporates the delta and omicron variant, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.

Leondios Kostrikis, educator of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, named the strain “deltacron,” because of its omicron-like inborn signatures within the delta genomes, Bloomberg shared. 

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“We will see in the future if this strain is more pathological or more contagious or if it will prevail” against the two powerful strains, delta and omicron, Kostrikis shared in a conference with Sigma TV Friday. He thinks omicron will also overtake deltacron, he added.

The researchers reportedly sent their discoveries this week to GISAID, an international database that traces viruses. 

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The deltacron variant arrives as omicron proceeds its abrupt sweep across the globe, causing a rise in Covid-19 cases. The U.S. is reporting a seven-day average of more than 600,000 new cases daily, according to a CNBC analysis Friday of data from Johns Hopkins University. That’s a 72% boost from the previous week and a pandemic record.

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