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Vietnam reports detection of a new SARS-COV-2 variant, which is a combination of B.1.617 (first detected in India) and B.1.117 (found first in the United Kingdom)
Health ministry holds urgent meeting as over 300 workers in Bac Giang infected with COVID-19 21:42 | 25/05/2021
Collecting samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi - The northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnamâs largest COVID-19 hotspot at present, had logged over 300 new infections as of the afternoon of May 25, the Ministry of Health (MoH)âs special taskforce in the province said.
All are workers staying in a sealed off area.
The MoH has held an urgent meeting with the special taskforce in Bac Giang and the provinceâs Health Department.
The cases were detected after an acceleration of testing conducted jointly by the MoH, local authorities, and relevant agencies over the last three days at all industrial parks (IPs), factories, and worker dormitories in the locality.
Medical workers collect testing samples of people living in Hoàng Mai 1 residential groups in Nếnh Town of Bắc Giang Province. VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam HÀ NỘI The northern province of Bắc Giang on early Tuesday afternoon reported more than 300 new SARS-CoV-2 cases, all people in areas under social distancing measures regulations. The cases were discovered after the health ministry, provincial authorities and medical workers spent the last three days ramping up testing efforts at all industrial parks, companies and residential areas where workers live in the province. Trần Như Dương, Deputy Director of National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said the source of infections was initially assumed to be factories in industrial parks or residential areas of workers as they were in small spaces with a high population density, creating favourable conditions for the spread of the coronavirus, particularly its more contagious variants.