Morning commuters wearing face masks, amidst concerns about the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, ride past in Hanoi. Vietnam announced the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and UK strands, state media reported on May 29. - AFP
HANOI, May 30 (Bernama): Vietnam has detected a new hybrid Covid-19 strain between the variants first identified in Britain and India, according Xinhua news agency quoting local media - VnExpress.
According to the Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, the hybrid strain could spread very fast in the air, and the Vietnamese health ministry will announce this new strain on the world gene map.
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