Researchers on Sunday detected the occurrence of covid-19 symptoms associated with two variants of the disease, delta and omicron, mostly in hospitalized patients, and it is already being called "deltacron."

Since the relative frequency of combined infection is higher among hospitalized patients than among non-hospitalized patients, there is a greater chance of a more aggressive strain than those two.

"It has a higher incidence and generates more cases of hospitalizations...this result does not come about by chance," said the professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology.

According to our sources, the first 25 cases resulting from the combination of the variants have been detected in Cyprus. Despite these numbers, it is still too early to determine whether this strain will be more pathogenic or contagious.

That professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, Leondios Kostrikis, confirmed that cases of co-infection are "combinations of the two variants," explaining that the name "deltacron" is due to the identification of multiple omicron and delta-type genetic signatures in the genomes.

"In these sequences, in particular, there are seven omicron mutations that are not present in any other variant, both virus and delta variant. We have delta in a smaller portion than omicron. I believe that this will not truly bring about a combination effect, but if it does then there will be several types of combinations, and we have discovered this phenomenon in many variants, in at least twelve delta variants," he explained.

The samples analyzed were collected from international databases, hospitals, diagnostic centers, and airports.

The researchers believe that these cases may thus be scattered around the world, but that it will be the omicron itself that will dominate the covid-19 cases in the world.

The publication of the study was scheduled for this Monday.