Do we need to add Vietnam into the mix now?

Hope JT stops the flights ASAP!

“Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the UK,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday, describing it as a hybrid of the two known variants.

“That the new one is an Indian variant with mutations that originally belong to the UK variant is very dangerous,” he told a government meeting, a recording of which was obtained by Reuters news agency.

There were seven known coronavirus variants in Vietnam before Long’s announcement, according to the Ministry of Health.

Long said Vietnam would soon publish genome data of the newly identified variant, which he said was more transmissible than the previously known types.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/29/vietnam-detects-new-hybrid-of-two-covid-variants