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A medical worker tests new coronavirus samples in an HCMV lab, April 2020. Photo by VnExpress / Quynh Tran.
A Vietnamese woman returning from Britain has been found infected with the new, more contagious strain of coronavirus.
She was part of a group of 305 passengers returning to Vietnam on Vietnam Airlines flight VN50 which landed in Can Tho on December 22.
On arrival, they were sent to quarantine facilities in Can Tho and the neighboring provinces of Vinh Long and Tra Vinh and HCMC.
In tests two days later, six of them were found to be carriers of Covid-19, four in Vinh Long and two in Tra Vinh.
The infected samples were sent to the HCMC Pasteur Institute, Vietnam’s main epidemiology center, for genetic sequencing, and he confirmed that one of the patients, a 44-year-old female, was infected with SARS- CoV-2 COV 202012/01 (Variant of Concern, year 2020, month 12, variant 01) found for the first time in Great Britain and is said to be 70% more transmissible than the old one.
The woman, who has suffered from high blood pressure for 10 years, is now in stable condition.
She is undergoing treatment at Tra Vinh Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital for a sore throat, mild fever, and cough, but she has no difficulty breathing.
Her husband in the UK has also tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Previously, 33 countries had said they had found the variant since Britain first reported it on December 8.
Vietnam has so far recorded 1,474 cases of Covid-19 and 35 deaths and has spent a month without local transmission.
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