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New coronavirus strain was identified in Cyprus as stated tonight in the Cypriot media by the professor of the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Cyprus, Dr. Leontios Kostrikis. The Professor according to what the website broadcast sigmalive.com, claims it is a mutation Deltacron identified in 25 cases and it appears that the strains have a genetic background of mutation Delta. “We found a large number of variants identified only in Omicron with differences in other strains because its genome has 30 different variants. From these the 10 variants of Omicron were identified in the incidents we identified...

SAN FRANCISCO — The rapid growth of Omicron is prompting officials to warn that hospitals could easily become overwhelmed, potentially within weeks, as they deal with a combination of the newest variant of the coronavirus along with patients hit by a holiday wave of the Delta strain. California and the rest of the nation now face a formidable winter. According to the state’s COVID forecasting models, there are plausible scenarios in which a winter surge could hit hospitals worse than the summer Delta wave, which strained facilities across swaths of the state. The combination is “a perfect storm for overwhelming...

A new super-variant could be created if Omicron and Delta infect someone at the same time, one of Moderna's bosses has warned. Covid infections normally only involve one mutant strain, but in extremely rare cases two can strike at the same time. If these also infect the same cell, they may be able to swap DNA and combine to make a new version of the virus.