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Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say
Published 9 hours ago
So far, Vietnam has recorded few cases by international standards Reuters
Vietnam has detected a Covid variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air, officials say.
Vietnam's Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long described the latest mutation on Saturday as "very dangerous".
Viruses mutate all the time and most variants are inconsequential, but some can make a virus more contagious.
Since Covid-19 was first identified in January 2020, thousands of mutations have been detected.
"Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK," Mr Nguyen told a government meeting, according to Reuters news agency.
Mr Nguyen said the new hybrid variant was more transmissible than previously known versions, especially in the air. He said it was discovered after running tests on newly-detected patients .. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-discovers-new-coronavirus-variant-with-uk-indian-mutations-4285878.html , online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He added that the genetic code of the virus would be made available soon.
* What we know about the different variants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55659820
* Where is the Indian variant and how is it spreading?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57157496
* Covid vaccines: How fast is progress around the world?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-56237778
The variant of Covid-19 first identified in India last October - called B.1.617.2 - is more transmissible than the UK/Kent variant - also known as B.1.1.7 - according to experts.
Research suggests that vaccines, such as the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs, are highly effective against the Indian variant after two doses, but protection from one dose appears to be reduced.
There is no evidence that any mutations of the coronavirus cause much more serious illness for the vast majority of people.
As with the original version, the risk remains highest for people who are elderly or have significant underlying health conditions.
But a virus being more infectious and equally dangerous will in itself lead to more deaths in an unvaccinated population.
Vietnam has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks. The country has registered more than 6,700 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. Of those, more than half have been recorded since late April this year.
It has also recorded 47 Covid-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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Published 9 hours ago
So far, Vietnam has recorded few cases by international standards Reuters
Vietnam has detected a Covid variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air, officials say.
Vietnam's Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long described the latest mutation on Saturday as "very dangerous".
Viruses mutate all the time and most variants are inconsequential, but some can make a virus more contagious.
Since Covid-19 was first identified in January 2020, thousands of mutations have been detected.
"Vietnam has uncovered a new Covid-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK," Mr Nguyen told a government meeting, according to Reuters news agency.
Mr Nguyen said the new hybrid variant was more transmissible than previously known versions, especially in the air. He said it was discovered after running tests on newly-detected patients .. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-discovers-new-coronavirus-variant-with-uk-indian-mutations-4285878.html , online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He added that the genetic code of the virus would be made available soon.
* What we know about the different variants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55659820
* Where is the Indian variant and how is it spreading?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57157496
* Covid vaccines: How fast is progress around the world?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-56237778
The variant of Covid-19 first identified in India last October - called B.1.617.2 - is more transmissible than the UK/Kent variant - also known as B.1.1.7 - according to experts.
Research suggests that vaccines, such as the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs, are highly effective against the Indian variant after two doses, but protection from one dose appears to be reduced.
There is no evidence that any mutations of the coronavirus cause much more serious illness for the vast majority of people.
As with the original version, the risk remains highest for people who are elderly or have significant underlying health conditions.
But a virus being more infectious and equally dangerous will in itself lead to more deaths in an unvaccinated population.
Vietnam has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks. The country has registered more than 6,700 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. Of those, more than half have been recorded since late April this year.
It has also recorded 47 Covid-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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VIDEO - Why do new variants of Covid-19 keep appearing? The BBC's Laura Foster explains
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57296803
"Da Kine 17, Still more no-evidence conspiracy garbage from you. Not going to bother with any more than your first one
Archived fact-check: Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab
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P -"He was saying we funded a kind of research in China that could lead to dangerous research; that’s not the case. So, what he was saying was just absolutely not true," Fauci said.
[...]
In 2014, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH arm that Fauci heads, awarded a $3.4 million grant to the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, which aims to protect people from viruses that jump from species to species. The alliance has projects across 30 countries, including Thailand, Vietnam and China.
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