Covid-19 pandemic: No Deltacron variant found in India so far

The Insacog, however, is on high alert and is tracking the genomes across different samples it collects from across the country.

So far, the Deltacron variant has not been spotted in India, government sources have said. However, the scale of genome sequencing of Covid-positive samples will be increased four-fold — from 10,000 samples per month to 8,000-10,000 a week.

“There is no Deltacron variant in India; we can very categorically say this,” said a senior member of the  Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog), the consortium which is tracking Covid-19 virus strains in the country through genome sequencing of samples.

The person, however, admitted that there are instances of “mixed infections”. “There are instances of mixed infections — Omicron with Delta —