Awareness of Delmicron variant

Viruses are programmed to mutate. So is the case with the SARs-COV-2 virus. Since the onset of the novel coronavirus up until now, new Covid-19 variants have cropped up time and again. With the latest coronavirus variant Omicron, wreaking a lot of havoc around the world, scientists now warn against the emergence of a new threat termed Delmicron. Reports suggest that the rise in the number of Covid cases in the West has been caused by a mix of Delta and Omicron variants, hence the name Delmicron. It is not a new variant of the coronavirus like Alpha, Beta and others. It is the combination of the two existing strains -- Delta and Omicron.
As Delmicron is created with the merging of Delta and Omicron versions of coronavirus, it is highly transmissible and can cause severe symptoms. As far as the symptoms go, being a combination of Delta and Omicron, Delmicron infection tends to show more or less the same symptom as its parent variants. Although, it is yet to be reported in Bangladesh, more research works are a must for this new kind of coronavirus.

Ashikujaman Syed,
Research Assistant,
Bioinformatics Research Lab,
Center for Research Innovation and Development (CRID),
syedashikujaman@yahoo.com