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Vietnam reports first case of new Covid variant spreading around Britain
Vietnam has detected its first imported case of the new Covid-19 variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, the health ministry said on Saturday. The variant was identified in a 44-year-old woman returning to Vietnam from Britain, who was quarantined upon arrival and tested positive for the virus on 24 December. “Researchers ran gene-sequencing on the patient’s sample and found the strain is a variant known as “VOC 202012/01”, the ministry said in a statement. Vietnam, which has recorded 35 Covid linked deaths, is still operating repatriation flights to bring its citizens stuck in the UK home amid the pandemic.
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