What is the Deltacron variant of Covid and where has it been found?

Deltacron is a Covid variant that contains elements of Delta and Omicron and is known as a recombinant virus.

Prof Lawrence Young, a professor at the University of Warwick, says that Deltacron is a type of recombinants.

The first solid evidence for this variant had been shared by the Pasteur Institute in France, according to a post by the global community of scientists that shares virus information.

Where has this variant been found?

The variant has been identified in several regions of France and appears to have been circulating since the start of the year.

According to the UK Health Security Agency, there have been reports of Deltacron being detected in the US and the UK. The first cases of person-to-person transmission of Deltacron are expected to be confirmed this week, according to the i newspaper.

How worried should we be?

Deltacron is not the first and will not be the last to occur for Covid, according to experts.

When we switch over from one dominant variant to another, it's usually a scientific curiosity but not much more than that.

There is not enough data about the severity of the variant or how well the vaccine protects against it, despite the fact that only a small number of cases of Deltacron have been identified.

The chief scientist at the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that there are multiple circulating versions of the sarscoV2 vaccine. It is necessary to wait for experiments to determine the properties of the virus. As we deal with the Pandemic, the importance of data sharing is important.

Young says that we need to keep an eye on the behavior of this recombinant in terms of its transmissibility and its ability to escape vaccine-induced immune protection. We are very likely to see more variant of the virus, including those generated through recombination, as it continues to circulate in under-vaccinated populations.

The variant is not showing a growth rate of concern according to the UKHSA.

It has been seen in the UK a small number of times, and so far seems to be very rare anywhere in the world.

There is likely to be at least some protection against this variant because of the previous waves of Delta and Omicron.