The first ever Deltacron recombinant combining Delta and Omicron BA.2 has been identified in a sequence from Karnataka, India. Deltacron recombinants identified to date have combined Delta with Omicron BA.1 or BA.1.1.
The recombinant hasn’t been formally named yet as there is only a single example, but, as the scientist who spotted it, Cornelius Roemer, says, it’s “Potentially worth keeping an eye on”
“I wouldn’t open issues for singlets, but this one is interesting because it’s the first possible Delta-BA.2 recombinant I’m aware of. It looks clean to me, with a single breakpoint at the start of S1.”
