Vietnam’s health ministry has detected a new coronavirus variant possessing the characteristics of the Indian and UK variants of the virus.
According to Reuters news agency, Vietnam’s Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long stated in a government meeting, “Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK.”
The variant is much more transmissible, especially in the air and viral cultures in the laboratory have revealed that the virus replicated itself very quickly, the report quoted Minister Nguyen Thanh Long Long as saying.
The laboratory cultures of the variant have revealed that the virus can replicate itself very quickly, thus leading to a quick spike in the number of COVID cases in different parts of Vietnam within a short period.