On Saturday(May 29), Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said that Vietnam has detected a new variant of Covid-19, which is a mix of variants first identified in India and Britain.
According to Mr Nguyen, this newly identified hybrid strain could spread quickly by air and this strain will be announced on the world gene map.
“After running gene sequencing on newly detected patients, we have discovered a new variant that is a mix of India and UK ones” Mr Nguyen said
The most common variants among Covid-19 cases in Vietnam are the 2 mutated strains first identified in Britain and India in the current infection wave.
The 7 virus strains reported by Vietnam are B1222, B1619, D614G, B117 (UK), B1351, A231 and B16172 (India).
Vietnam has reported 6,396 coronavirus cases and 47 deaths so far.