Vietnam has detected a new hybrid Covid-19 strain between the variants first identified in Britain and India, according Xinhua news agency quoting local media - VnExpress.
And this will not be the last time that the virus mutates, the experts added.
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the National University of Singapore s (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, told The Straits Times on Saturday (May 29): What is frightening is the speed at which this variant is able to spread and circulate widely within the community, often surpassing the capability of contact-tracing units to track and isolate exposed contacts to break the transmission chains. It has the potential to unleash a bigger pandemic storm than the world has previously seen.
B1617 has mutated to spread more easily from person to person, and may dampen the protection conferred by vaccines as well as natural infection, though only slightly, experts say.