Tag: variant
Symptoms of the Omicron variant: what we know
Cases with strong suspicion of contamination by the Omicron variant now represent nearly 9 out of 10 cases according to Public Health France. With more than 300,000 new cases diagnosed…
Omicron: 50% less risk of being hospitalized compared to Delta
A study was conducted in the United States, during a period of mixed circulation of the Delta and Omicron variants. It shows that cases of suspected infection with Omicron are…
Variant Deltacron: a false alarm according to experts
News Posted 2d ago, 2 min read A researcher from Cyprus told local media that he identified a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants. But for many experts, this…
Vaccination also reduces transmission of the Delta variant
We have heard over and over again that Covid-19 vaccines do not decrease the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. However, we know that this is however the case concerning the Alpha variant.…
Deltacron: a new variant of Covid or a laboratory error?
DELTACRON. The “Deltacron” variant, a possible combination of the Delta and Omicron strains of Covid-19 discovered in Cyprus, has caused the web to panic. However, the international and French scientific…
Deltacron: does the new variant discovered in Cyprus really exist?
“Deltacron” is a term that made the rounds in the media this weekend. It would be a variant of SARS-CoV-2, a mixture between Delta and Omicron, discovered in Cyprus. The…
Deltacron: the “new” Covid variant to rule out?
A combination of the Delta and Omicron variant called “Deltacron” has been identified by scientists at the University of Cyprus. For Professor Arnaud Fontanet of the Institut Pasteur, this is…
The Omicron variant is spreading! Seen for the first time in China… A city is on the alert
Omicron has leaped into a country with lawsuits. Cang Ying, Deputy Director of the Tiencı Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that the Omicron variant, also known as the…
Delta variant: origin, in France, symptoms, incubation
DELTA VARIANT. The Delta variant (called before “Indian”) was responsible for a long time for all the positive tests screened in France, before being gradually replaced by Omicron, which became…
Why Omicron could be the latest ‘worrying’ variant
Viruses all change over time. SARS-CoV-2, responsible for Covid-19, has already mutated several times, creating many variants including those called Alpha, Beta or Delta. With unprecedented propagation capacity, will the…