Vietnam s very dangerous new Covid hybrid variant replicating quickly: Report
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A woman wears a protective mask as she exercises on the street amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Hanoi, Vietnam,
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. Updated: 02 Jun 2021, 07:56 AM IST ANI
Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Vietnam would soon publish genome data of the newly identified variant, which he said was more transmissible than the previously known types, The Telegraph
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Hanoi: Vietnam s very dangerous new COVID-19 hybrid variant may be fuelling its worst outbreak so far as it is replicating quickly.
On Saturday, the Vietnamese authorities revealed they had discovered a very dangerous new coronavirus variant that combined mutations first found in India and the UK, and which spreads quickly by air, reported The Telegraph.
Vietnam recorded 50 more COVID-19 infections, including two imported cases, during the past six hours to 12:00 pm on June 2, lifting the national tally to 7,675, according to the Ministry of Health.
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If the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread worldwide, vaccines could become ineffective and strains could escape immunity. The right vaccines need to go to the places where they are needed.
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Up to now, the variants of concern have been named after the places where they were first discovered. But in a move to avoid stigmatizing particular countries, the World Health Organization has now introduced a new naming system based on the letters of the Greek alphabet. The UK/Kent, South African, Brazilian and Indian variants will now be given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta respectively. But the labels will not replace their more complex scientific names.