Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA)
– Vietnam has detected a , which is a hybrid between
the , confirmed Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long at an
online national conference on May 29.
Assessing the
mutation as very dangerous, Long said Vietnam will soon announce it on the world
genome map.
According to the
ministry, a multi-strain virus has been recorded in the 4th wave of
outbreaks that has hit Vietnam since April 27. The India and the UK variants are the two
most common ones, with the former dominating and the latter only found in Da
Nang and some other localities.
The detection of
the new variant pushed the total number of variants in Vietnam to eight.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
The health
minister emphasised that recent outbreaks have seen the virus spreading quickly
and strongly in the air with high contagious level in narrow, unventilated
spaces.
Symptoms of the
disease have worsen, so intensive treatment in localities must be leveled up, he
noted.
reported
56 new COVID-19 cases in the past 6 hours to 12:00 on May 29, according to the
Ministry of Health. Of the new cases, seven are imported and 49 are locally
transmitted, including 46 in Bac Giang, one in Tay Ninh, one in Dien Bien, and
one in the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases No. 2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh
district.
With the new
cases, the country documented a total of 5,213 domestic infections, including
3,643 confirmed since April 27./.
Source: VietnamPlus
