From its symptoms to infectivity, here is all that you need to know about Deltacron. There are a few cases reported from the UK where the patient is infected with 2 variants of COVID - Delta and Omicron.
A Daily Mail report said, “it is thought to have evolved in a patient who caught both variants at the same time but it is not clear if it was imported or originated in Britain." Several 'recombinant' variants have been detected in the pandemic, but they have not led to any serious outbreaks, the report also said.
UKHSA officials also don't know how infectious or severe the newly evolved virus is, its symptoms or whether it will impact vaccine performance.
However, infectious disease expert professor Paul Hunter said, as quoted by Daily Mail, that it 'shouldn't pose too much of a threat' because the UK has huge levels of immunity against the original Delta and Omicron strains. 'So at the moment I'm not overly worried at the moment.