Health experts at a laboratory in Ohio State University, US detects Omicron variant through genetic sequencing. (Photo: Reuters)Quang Nam
(VNA) – Fourteen people arriving in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam province from the Republic of Korea (RoK) and the US have
been confirmed to be infected with variant of
the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The provincial Department of Health announced on December 31 morning that the infected passengers landed at Da
Nang International Airport in neighbouring Da Nang city on four different flights.
All the patients are Vietnamese nationals and they
had got two or three vaccine shots against COVID-19. Of them, eight were on flight VN99 from the US and three on flight VN417 from the RoK, which landed on December 24. Meanwhile,
two persons were on flight VN417 from the RoK and another on flight QH9451 from the
RoK, which landed on December 23 and 21,
respectively.
Vietnam detected the first infection
of Omicron variant on
December 28. The patient returned from the UK on December
19 and was immediately quarantined at Hospital 108 after his arrival.
The Omicron variant was first detected in South Africa in late November, and labeled a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO)./.
Source: VietnamPlus
