Vietnam confirms sixth wave of Covid-19 due to UK variant
By ANA Reporter
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Cape Town – An outbreak of the more contagious UK variant of the coronavirus in Vietnam has affected 301 people and spread to 10 counties and cities.
There have been 1,705 new cases, 149 of which were community transmissions and one case of the UK variant documented from abroad.
Hanoi has reported one Covid-19 infection to “patient 1553”, a 31-year-old employee of Quang Ninh Province s Van Don International Airport, who was confirmed to be infected last Thursday morning. Gene sequencing showed that 12 of 276 newly detected patients are positive with the UK variant, although the source of this outbreak remains unknown. We need to follow mask-wearing regulations scrupulously, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long was reported as saying at a cabinet meeting.