Cyprus Scientists Discover Combined Delta and Omicron COVID-19 Variant Dubbed ‘Deltacron’

Cyprus Scientists Discover Combined Delta and Omicron COVID-19 Variant Dubbed ‘Deltacron’
Medical staff perform a Corona rapid test during the coronavirus pandemic in Berlin on Jan. 7, 2022. Hannibal Hanschke/Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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A team of scientists in Cyprus has identified a strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that reportedly combines many of the characteristics of the Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants, according to a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus.

Leondios Kostrikis, who’s also head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology at the university, told Cyprus TV network Sigma TV on Jan. 7 that the discovery was named “Deltacron” because of the identification of Omicron-like genetic signatures within Delta genomes.

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