This is Deltacron, the new variant of coronavirus detected in Europe

Despite the fact that the incidence of coronavirus continues to decrease throughout the world and, more specifically, in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has once again detected a new variant of covid-19 that could reverse the situation. combining Delta and omicron propertiesthis novel threat has been given the colloquial name of Deltacrón.

“We are aware of this recombination. It is a combination of delta AT.4 and omicron BA.1,” said one of the WHO’s leading epidemiologists, Maria van Kerkhove. At the press conference held in Geneva, when the two years Since the director of the institution, Tedros Adhanom, came to the fore to confirm that the coronavirus had passed into the pandemic phase, this latest news raises alarms around the world again.

Especially since it was considered that the harshest stage of covid-19 had already been left behind, thanks in part to the high immunity acquired through multiple omicron infections between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, Deltacron could thus create a new and worrying wave.

This is Deltacron

“We have detected cases in France, the Netherlands and Denmark“, the WHO has shown while stressing that, for now, “at very low levels“. Of course, even with studies ahead to detect its characteristics and possible scope, the institution has made it clear that it will continue to monitor its incidence.

A follow-up that Tedros Adhanom himself has asked to maintain, showing his concern over the fact that many countries drastically reduce diagnostic tests. “This inhibits our ability to see where the virus is, how it is spreading and evolving,” she said.

In two years of the pandemic, the coronavirus has claimed around six million victims worldwide

All while two years have passed since the pandemic decree, with an official death toll of around 6 million worldwide, and a situation that has completely changed the society of the 21st century. Already far from the hardest stage, Deltacrón appears as a new threat that continues to remind us that “there is still a long way to go”.