What Is Deltacron? This Is The Expert's Explanation

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JAKARTA - YARSI University Postgraduate Director Prof. Tjandra Yoga Aditama said Deltacron is a new variant combined BA.1 and B.1617.2 which has received recognition from the competent authorities in the UK as a report being monitored. which is called a combination of BA.1 and B.1617.2. In the UK this variant is included in the variant surveillance report," said Tjandra Yoga Aditama in a written statement confirmed in Jakarta, Friday, February 18. He said the emergence of the Deltacron variant had been reported in Cyprus since 2021. , but at that time many considered the virus to be just contamination in the laboratory. Then on January 7, 2022, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) sent 25 sequences of the Deltacron variant to a global genome data collection site called GISAID. 2022," he said. Tjandra who is also a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of s Indonesia (FKUI) said it was suspected that a new variant of Deltacron was formed in someone who was infected with two variants at once, namely BA.1 and B.1617.2. "But it's not clear whether it happened in the UK or is an imported case to that country," he said. On the other hand, said Tjandra, WHO in early January 2022 said there was a possibility that someone could be infected with several variants of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 at once. "It is also possible that someone is infected with COVID-19 and also infected with Influenza at the same time," he said. Deltacron. "Although there are opinions of several experts about Deltacron, it seems that we still need to wait for some time in the future," he said. Tjandra added that Deltacron and Delmicron, which were widely discussed by the public in December 2021, are two different things. the combination of the Delta variant and the Omicron variant turns out this is not true. The term Delmicron only stems from an explanation n Dr Shashank Joshi, a member of the task force from Maharashtra state in India who happened to be interviewed by the media, not in scientific writing," he said. provide information about the presence or absence of Delmicron. "Also there is no statement from any official organization in India nor is there any explanation from other experts who mentions Delmicron," he said.