{"id":32586,"date":"2021-05-29T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T10:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/29\/vietnam-discovers-new-hybrid-covid-variant-state-media-reports"},"modified":"2021-05-30T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T13:20:28","slug":"vietnam-discovers-new-hybrid-covid-variant-state-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32586","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam says new Covid variant is hybrid of India and UK strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Very dangerous\u2019 coronavirus variant is \u2018more transmissible\u2019 than previously known types<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Covid variants first identified in India and the UK and spreads quickly by air, the health minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>After successfully containing the virus for most of last year, Vietnam is grappling with a rise in infections since late April that accounts for more than half of the total 6,856 registered cases. So far, there have been 47 deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/29\/vietnam-discovers-new-hybrid-covid-variant-state-media-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Very dangerous\u2019 coronavirus variant is \u2018more transmissible\u2019 than previously known typesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Covid varian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,1066,914,512,916,299,430,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-vietnam","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32621,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32586\/revisions\/32621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}