“Delmicron” might be driving COVID-19 surge in US, Europe
INDIA: There is the Delta variant, then there is the Omicron variant of coronavirus and now, there’s Delmicron. Confused about what Delmicron is? Are you worried that there’s a new variant waiting to wreak havoc?
Delmicron isn’t a new variant of COVID-19 , but as Dr Shashank Joshi, member of Maharashtra's task force on COVID-19 explains, it is the combination of the twin spikes of Delta and Omicron, which has run over Europe and the US.
Delmicron is the double variant of COVID-19 that is spreading increasingly in the West. This name has been derived by combining coronavirus ' Delta variant and the Omicron variant because at present these both variants are being found all over the world, including India. As we know, both the US and UK are currently battling a tsunami of COVID-19 cases. In the US, the data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that the rapidly spreading Omicron variant is now the dominant COVID-19 strain, representing 73 percent of sequenced cases.
Omicron has displaced the previously dominant Delta variant, which the CDC says is now an estimated 26.6 percent of sequenced cases for the week ending December 18. Just one week earlier, Delta made up 87 percent of cases to Omicron’s 12.6 percent, the data shows.
In some parts of the country, the share of Omicron cases is higher than the nationwide figure of 73 percent. The CDC estimates it makes up more than 90 percent of cases in portions of the Northwest, South, Southeast, and Northeast.
These numbers clearly show that the US is battling a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants, and they have ramped up testing and vaccinations — with booster doses — to battle this raging wildfire.
source https://www.dailynews.lk/2021/12/25/world/268399/%E2%80%9Cdelmicron%E2%80%9D-might-be-driving-covid-19-surge-us-europe
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