MANILA – Filipinos need not panic over news of a hybrid coronavirus variant reported in Vietnam, the Department of Health said Monday.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the World Health Organization has not yet received details of the apparent variant. The organization keeps track of a list of variants detected in different countries.
Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant, which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, state media reported Saturday. More than 6,700 cases including 47 deaths have been reported in Vietnam -- the lion's share have occurred since April. Vietnam -- a country of 97 million people -- has vaccinated a little over a million citizens.
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