Vietnam detects new variant of COVID-19 it could spread very fast29 May 2021 11:43
Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday a new COVID-19 strain has been detected in the country.
The minister noted the new variant is a hybrid variant of the strains first identified in India and the United Kingdom and warned it could spread very fast in the air.
"The new variant of the virus has not yet been named. The Vietnamese Ministry of Health will include the new strain in the global map of the coronavirus genome," Nguyen Thanh Long stated.
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