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Vietnam's Ministry of Health (MoH) has warned of the potential risk of Covid-19 outbreaks due to the emergence of new variants.

Epidemiologist and former head of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee Prof Salim Abdool Karim says there is no reason to be concerned after the discovery of the new and highly infectious Covid-19 sub-variant XBB.1.5.

While life has nearly returned to normal after two years of living with a pandemic, the new XBB. 1.5 sub-variant of Covid has threatened to derail our progress.

And see somebody like me a pulmonologist in the hospital and this is why this is something unfortunately we need to be talking about and this is why it is so dangerous. fortunately, as well, though, if you were boosted, especially in, within the first four to six months of receiving that booster shot, what we know is that the existing vaccines are still very protective against ending up in the hospital. we know masking works, of course, and especially in communities that have stressed hospital s...

Hospitals are full of patients. >> reporter: covid has been barrelling through the country for weeks. after widespread protests in november, over lockdowns and testing, china abruptly dropped its tough zero covid rules in december. border restrictions imposed nearly three years ago are set to be lifted next week. the whiplash changes here have seen cities going from harsh lockdowns to jammed streets on new years eve as people begin to recover from covid and hope the countrys economy does, too. c...

Thats right, acute pharmaceuticals, almost all of them come from china. antibiotics, 50 percent, tucker 95 percent of the ibuprofen imported into the united states comes from china 70 percent of the acetaminophen, so if you think that the pharmacy over there is not going to impact us over here, youve got another thing coming. we already have a shortage here that is going to grow by leaps and bounds so for all the scientists out there who are worried about the new variant coming out of china i sa...

Millions of infections or whether there is a chance of a new variant emerging in china or other parts of the world is difficult to say, but certainly the wall opportunities the virus gets that is every chance for the virus to move in a new direction, a sub variant or a new variant. fingers crossed up on not happen. what we need to do was monitor the virus so that as soon as possible we know the situation, we know if there is anything you coming out. hopefully that wont be the case but unless we ...

Clogging and your airways get clogged when you are tiny and you turn blue and have problems breathing. thats an issue with rsv. flu knocks you out. were seeing it now with fatigue and body aches. you cant get out of bed. thats flu. with covid im seeing a lot of sore throats with this sub variant. very strong sore throat and headache and body aches. thats how i distinguish it if i get the phone call. the reason were seeing so much rsv out of season is people werent exposed to it because of the cl...

The variant, which is fast spreading in other parts of the world, has reached India as well. It reportedly originated in a region of Mongolia in China

There are now five confirmed infections in Thailand of the antibody-resistant sub-variant of Covid-19, BA.2.75, and health authorities are closely watching its development.