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BBC: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say

By BBC.

Published May 30, 2021. Updated May 30 at 4:20 am

(FILES) In this file photo syringes of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas on March 15, 2021.

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Vietnam has detected a Covid variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air, officials say. Vietnam’s Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long described the latest mutation on Saturday as “very dangerous”.