“On January 7, 2022, 25 sequences of the new“ variant ”of the coronavirus were actually deposited into the international database GISAID.
I took the word “option” in quotation marks because, upon closer examination, they turned out to be similar to laboratory contamination, that is, contamination of some samples by others, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to the expert, the appearance of the "deltacron" can be caused by a whole series of mistakes made by the laboratory personnel, starting from the already mentioned contamination and ending with the analysis by an insufficiently experienced specialist.
In this regard, one should not rush to make statements about the effectiveness of tests and vaccines in relation to this "option".
“First you need to understand - is it a new hybrid, or was it laboratory contamination.
Moreover, other laboratories did not reveal something similar, ”concluded Khafizov.
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".