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(Bloomberg) -- A Cypriot scientist defended his assertion that a new
strain of Covid-19 exists that combines characteristics of the delta and omicron variants.

Other scientists have speculated that Leonidos Kostrikis’s findings are
a result of laboratory contamination. But he told Bloomberg in an
emailed statement that the cases he has identified “indicate an
evolutionary pressure to an ancestral strain to acquire these mutations
and not a result of a single recombination event.”

Deltacron infection is higher among patients hospitalized for Covid-19
than among non-hospitalized patients, so that rules out the
contamination hypothesis, said Kostrikis, a professor of biological
sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Lsbortory of
Biotechnology and Molecular Virology.

What’s more, the samples were processed in multiple sequencing
procedures in more than one country. And at least one sequence from
Israel deposited in a global database exhibits genetic characteristics
of deltacron, he said.

“These findings refute the undocumented statements that deltacron is a
result of a technical error,” Kostrikis said.

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