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Vietnam coronavirus: suspected variant that's a hybrid of the UK and India strains detected CNN 1 hr ago By Elaine Ly, Jennifer Hauser, Lauren Mascarenhas and Helen Regan, CNN © Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty Images Health workers collect swab samples to test for Covid-19 at the Thanh Xuan district medical centre in Hanoi on May 15. Vietnam's health ministry has detected a suspected new coronavirus variant which it said appears to be a hybrid of two highly transmissible strains. "A new coronavirus variant with characteristics from the existing Indian and UK variants had been detec...

Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins THE World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a naming system for variants of the coronavirus that uses letters of the Greek alphabet. Under the new naming scheme, the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the UK, commonly referred to as the Kent variant, is labelled “alpha”, the B.1.351 variant identified in South Africa is “beta”, the P.1 variant which first originated in Brazil is “gamma” and the B.1.617.2 variant first detected in India is “delta”. These Greek letter labels will only be given to “variants of concern” and “variants o...

Coronavirus variants of concern and variants of interest will now be named using a system similar to hurricane naming, wherein each variant gets assigned a letter of the Greek alphabet.

What We Know About Vietnam's New COVID-19 Variant On 5/31/21 at 12:08 PM EDT A new, "dangerous" COVID-19 variant has emerged in Vietnam that is a hybrid combination of strains from India and the U.K., the country's health minister said Saturday. Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said that the new variant is more transmissible than those previously known and its genome data will be published soon, according to Reuters. "Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the U.K. That the new one is an Indian variant with...

Vietnam's health ministry has detected a suspected new coronavirus variant which it said appears to be a hybrid of two highly transmissible strains.