Despite the fact that the incidence of coronavirus continues to decrease throughout the world and, more specifically, in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) that could reverse the situation. Combining properties of Delta and omicron, this novel threat has been given the colloquial name of Deltacron.
“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 two years have passed since the director of the institution Tedros Adhanom came to the fore to confirm that, this latest news raises alarms around the world again.
Especially since it was considered that the worst stage of covid-19 had already been left behind, thanks in part to the high immunity acquired through the multiple infections by omicron 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 noting that, at the moment, “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 that many countries drastically reduce diagnostic tests. “This inhibits our ability to see where the virus is, how it is spreading and evolving,” he 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 21st century society. 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”.
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