Vietnam’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that it had detected a highly transmissible new variant of the coronavirus that has helped fuel a recent wave of infections in the country.
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Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge
Variant is a mix of coronavirus strains first detected in the United Kingdom and India, country’s health minister says
By Katerina Ang
May 29, 2021 at 8:26 a.m. EDT