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New hybrid Covid-19 virus found
30 May 2021 at 08:48hrs | Views
Vietnam has discovered a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed yesterday.
The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
More than 6 800 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, with the lion's share occurring since April.
"We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains," Health minister Nguyen Thanh long told a national meeting on the pandemic yesterday, according to state media.
"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."
The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
More than 6 800 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, with the lion's share occurring since April.
"We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains," Health minister Nguyen Thanh long told a national meeting on the pandemic yesterday, according to state media.
"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."
Source - Eyewitness News
