Al-Marsad newspaper: The World Health Organization has resolved the controversy surrounding the emergence of a new mutant of the Corona virus, “Deltakron”, which is claimed to be a mixture of the “Delta” and “Omicron” mutant.
There is no deltachron
The Director of the World Health Organization’s Infection Risk Prevention Program, Abdel Nasser Abu Bakr, told “Sky News Arabia” that “on the ground, there is no mutant called (deltacrone) approved by us, according to what an expert in Cyprus claimed.”
Abu Bakr added: “We cannot combine two mutations into one, as we have a new, different mutant called Omicron, and it has some similar and different mutations (from previous versions), and therefore it has a mutation greater than delta and alpha.”
He stressed that “each mutant is related to the previous one, and therefore there is some link between Omicron and Delta, but we did not adopt the emergence of a new mutant in the name of Deltacron, according to the evidence that we have that did not show a new mutant.”
Abu Bakr stressed that the World Health Organization continues to investigate the new data issued by Cyprus, and reports on the new mutant and the extent to which they are alarming or not, adding that “the organization has strict rules in determining the emergence of new mutagens.”
Florona
With regard to the emergence of cases infected with Corona infection and the influenza virus at the same time, a condition known as “Florona”, Abu Bakr said that patients “may be exposed to simultaneous infections, whether with Covid or other viruses, especially those who suffer mainly respiratory infections.”
The official at the World Health Organization pointed out that “the number of cases infected with Florona is small, but it does not prevent the increase in infection with it,” noting that the cases that were infected with it “did not show strong symptoms.”