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A migrant worker has her temperature checked in Oddar Meanchey province after returning from Thailand on Monday. Oddar Meanchey Provincial Hall
Ministry explains new UK Covid-19 strain
Wed, 23 December 2020
Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine addressed the new mutation of the Covid-19 virus that was found in England, saying that research was underway in multiple countries.
The new variant of Covid-19 has been named SARS-CoV-2 VUI 202012/01, with the extension of the acronym representing ‘Variant Under Investigation in December 2020’. It was first detected in test samples taken in England’s southeast county of Kent in September and is now spreading rapidly.