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Vietnam detects 1st case of South African coronavirus variant infection – VnExpress International
A South African woman who arrived in Hanoi in December with Covid- 19 has been found infected with the highly contagious coronavirus variant that originated in…

The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology on Sunday said the 25-year-old is the country’s first patient with the mutated strain.
She landed on December 19 on a flight from South Africa, was quarantined on arrival, tested positive for the disease, and was admitted at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Her samples were sent to the institute for genetic sequencing, and the results showed she was infected with B.1.351/501Y, which was first found in South Africa before spreading to…
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