Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday.
“We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said at a national meeting on the pandemic this Saturday. “The characteristic of this strain is that it spreads quickly in the air. The concentration of virus in the throat fluid increases rapidly and spreads very strongly to the surrounding environment.”
Although Minister Nguyen Thanh Long did not specify the number of cases recorded with this new variant, he said that Vietnam will soon announce the discovery in the world’s map of genetic strains.
Meanwhile, there were seven known coronavirus variants already detected in Vietnam, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.
“We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said at a national meeting on the pandemic this Saturday. “The characteristic of this strain is that it spreads quickly in the air. The concentration of virus in the throat fluid increases rapidly and spreads very strongly to the surrounding environment.”
Although Minister Nguyen Thanh Long did not specify the number of cases recorded with this new variant, he said that Vietnam will soon announce the discovery in the world’s map of genetic strains.
Meanwhile, there were seven known coronavirus variants already detected in Vietnam, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.
