Supposed deltacron variant could be a laboratory error

The deltacron variant of the coronavirus, which allegedly combines the delta and omnicron strains, could be a laboratory error according to recent scientific studies.

The newspaperThe world He reported thatGkikas Magiorkinis, a member of the expert committee in Athens, noted that the first independent analyzes of the deltacron variant show that it is aCypriot laboratory technical error who detected it.

Specifically, the expert considers that it is an error "in the process of reading the genome." Specialists from Imperial College London agree with this idea. The virologistTom Peacock, points out that it is a case of "contamination" in the identification of the virus.

Greek and British scientists have questioned the discovery of thecombined version of coronavirus announced in Cyprus this Saturday, by the director of the Biotechnology and Molecular Virology laboratory of that country,Leondios Kostridis.

The Cypriot scientist assures that there are currently co-infections of omicron and delta and that they have detected 25 cases of what they call "deltacron" in his country, the variant that is a combination of two strains.

Kostrikis published his discovery in the journalBloomberg and on a television program on the Sigma TV channel on Friday.

He pointed out that in the new variant of COVID-19 his work team detected "an identification of omicron genetic signatures within the delta genomes" and that is why the two names were combined to define it.