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World Health Organization says combination was expected and monitor
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday (09), that it monitors the emergence of a new variant of the new coronavirus that combines two other strains: omicron and delta - Deltacron.
The new variant has already been detected in three European countries, according to WHO technical director Maria Van Kerkhove. According to her, the emergence was already expected.
We are aware of this, it is a combination of Delta and Omicron variants. It has been detected in France, the Netherlands and Denmark. This was something to be expected given that there is an intense circulation of these variants”, Maria said at a press conference.
The first solid evidence of the existence of deltacron was shared by the Pasteur Institute in France, which carried out complete genetic sequencing of the virus for GISAID, an international database that centralizes the genetic sequences of all variants of the coronavirus.
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