In this jittery environment, it’s not unexpected that errors and misconceptions about variants will occur.
The fear, earlier this month, that delta and, researchers say it does not exist and is probably the result of laboratory contamination.
He and his team named this “deltacron”, and uploaded 25 of the sequences to the public database GISAID , which has an international platform dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic, with tools to support the rapid sharing and interpreting of genetic data. The Cypriot team said aspects of its original hypothesis were misconstrued, with the media mistakenly taking it to mean the two variants had formed a hybrid. The team never claimed the new strain emerged from a “single recombination event”. Rather, it combined characteristics of delta and omicron and was the result of “evolutionary pressure”.About 72 hours after uploading all the sequences, the team removed them from public view on the database, while investigations continued.
Currently, there is talk about a French variant known as BA.2, or omicron’s little brother. At this stage, WHO doesWith more than 7 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes uploaded to this GISAID database since January 2020, keeping up with mutations is a mammoth task. Given this volume, experts say sequencing mistakes are possible.
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