The latest addition to the arsenal of Covid variants, the strain "Deltacron" has seen itself being labelled as a "lab contamination" in a sharp turn of events. The quite interesting claims takes it source from a virologist in the UK.
A UK-based virologist has called the new Covid variant dubbed "Deltacron" a "lab contamination" rather than a new strain after a researcher in Cyprus declared his team had discovered it, reports the Business Standard.
The Cypriot 'Deltacron' sequences published by multiple major media platforms appear to be "contaminated," according to Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London.
"When new variants come through sequencing lab contamination isn't that uncommon (very very tiny volumes of liquid can cause this) - just usually these fairly clearly contaminated sequences are not reported by major media outlets," Peacock said in a Twitter thread on Sunday.
According to him, Omicron hasn't propagated in a significant enough number length...
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