She wrote about this on her Twitter page.
According to Kerkhove, "deltacron" is the result of contamination of a sample or equipment during the sequencing of the coronavirus genome.
Jumping in late here: Let's not use words like deltacron, flurona or flurone.
Please 🙏
These words imply combination of viruses / variants & this is not happening.
“Deltacron” is likely contamination during sequencing, # SARSCoV2 continues to evolve & see flu co-infection🧵below.
https://t.co/rNuoLwgCzN
- Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) January 10, 2022
Earlier it was reported that scientists from the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology of the University of Cyprus discovered a hybrid of strains of coronavirus "delta" and "omicron", which was given the name "deltacron".
In turn, Rospotrebnadzor expert Kamil Khafizov said that the appearance of a "deltacron" may be the result of sample contamination.