Study: Coronavirus is evolving; divides into 2 groups in Vietnam

Quach My Linh, a hat vendor at Ba Chieu market, shows the face masks she makes to donate to hospitals during the outbreak of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) disease, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Monday (April 6). - Reuters

HANOI: Vietnamese researchers have found that the coronavirus causing the Covid-19 pandemic had evolved and divided into two different groups in the country, daily newspaper Vietnam News reported on Monday (April 6).

The virus that Vietnam isolated on Covid-19 cases coming from Europe was found to be different from the one on patients found in Asia, the newspaper quoted Le Thi Quynh Mai, deputy director of the county's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, as saying.