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Old 31-05-2021, 00:32   #5462
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Re: Coronavirus
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Vietnam identifies new coronavirus variant as infections surge

Hybrid of strains first discovered in the UK and India detected in four patients

Vietnam said it had detected a new coronavirus variant that combines features of the variants first identified in India and the UK and is easily transmissible by air.

In remarks on Saturday quoted by state-controlled media, Nguyen Thanh Long, health minister, said genetic sequencing by Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology had detected at least four Covid-19 patients carrying the newly identified variant.

Le Thi Quynh Mai, the institute’s deputy head, said the variant was not yet recorded by GISAID, the global initiative focused on sharing information about viruses, and did not yet have a name.

Pham Minh Chinh, Vietnam’s prime minister, reportedly called for “urgent response measures amid the complicated developments of the pandemic”, which is now spreading through the industrial parks at the heart of Vietnam’s export-focused, foreign direct investment-driven economy.
https://www.ft.com/content/46290dfc-...a-3edaf2a6ad3f
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