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Medical personnel test the virus that causes COVID-19 – Photo: DUYEN PHAN
On February 1, the Ministry of Health issued a notice of discovery New variant from the UK corona virus in a 45-year-old patient who recently returned from England.
This variation How dangerous? What should Vietnam do to prevent the new variant from spreading? Do you need to suspend flights from the UK?
“While searching for F1, F1 may have infected F2”
Exchange with Online youth noon 2-1, Dr Le Quoc Hung, Head of the Department of Tropical Diseases at Cho Ray Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City), said that the new strain of corona virus first discovered in the UK has the ability to transmit much more strongly than the virus strain. before, but the virulence has not changed.
Consequently, this new strain is more likely to adhere to the host than the previous strain, giving the ability to infect and transmit earlier even if the patient has a low viral load. For example, the old strain of corona virus usually took around 5 days to infect the disease, and this new strain only took 3 days.
Similarly, Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, shared tScientific research information, new variant of UK coronavirus with transmission rate lIt is very fast compared to the old strain, so it is extremely dangerous if someone gets infected with this new strain but goes undetected and quarantined in time.
“With old virus infection cases, after 1-2 days it is safe to trace close contact cases. As for the new strain, it has a high rate of spread, so it is possible that while looking for F1, F1 has spread to F2. “- Said Dr. Chau.
According to Dr. Chau, although studies show the rate of severe illness and death in people infected with strains of the corona virus new not increasing, but in a situation where the number of newly infected people increases, there will be a severe case of disease, which also leads to a high risk of death.
‘Closed’ with flight from the UK to fight the epidemic?
Given the situation that many countries restrict entry from England, especially many European countries have not allowed entry from England, According to Dr. Hung, Vietnam doesn’t really need to close flights from the UK.
The same opinion, Dr Chau said that the new strain of the corona virus was not only found in the UK but also in many countries around the world. If Vietnam only closes flights from the UK, it is not enough, sometimes the virus is “transported” from other countries, or by the open path or road.
Therefore, all entry cases need strict inspection and isolation from the moment of entry. However, the most worrisome are the cases of illegal entry.
“If they are also carrying a new strain of corona virus, it will spread to the community very quickly. At the time of detection, it may have spread to many people, so the traceability speed of the preventive medicine system is not on time, “said Dr. Dr. Chau said.
To control the new strain of virus spreading in Vietnam, doctors said it is necessary to strictly control from the beginning by selecting people in the UK who really need to enter Vietnam and quarantine immediately after entry; tightening of all border gates, road quotas, trails, openings for “thorough” cases of illegal entry.
According to Dr. Hung, to control and prevent diseases caused by the new corona virus, people should strictly follow the 5K message from the Ministry of Health: “Masks – Disinfectants – Distance – Inattention – Medical claim “.
However because The spread of the new strain is very strong, so we must adhere to 5K more seriously, more thoroughly with greater intensity (in all places) to control the new strain of corona virus.
The most important is the consensus and cooperation of the people with the authorities and the health sector system. If cases of illegal entry are detected, it is necessary to inform the authorities.
Ministry of Health: Will monitor isolation more closely
Responding to journalists on the fact that many countries have decided to stop entry from the UK and South Africa, if Vietnam has made a similar decision, the Health Ministry said that up to this point, it has not decided to stop, nor has it changed the time. the quarantine period, but they remain the same 14 days of quarantine.
However, in early response to the situation, the Health Ministry said it would monitor the isolation more closely and monitor the status of the invading virus through genetic sequencing.
According to Mr. Dang Duc Anh, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, to date the virus has no signs of increased virulence, but has a higher infectious capacity (a 70% increase in the possibility of transmission compared to the strain. old).
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The new variant has been rolled out to 34 countries and regions.
A new variant of the corona virus called VUI-202012/01 was discovered in the UK for the first time in September 2020. By November 2020, approximately a quarter of new infections in London were due to VUI-202012/01, by mid-December this number had risen to almost two-thirds.
On December 8, the UK issued a warning on this variant. The variant was later discovered in many other countries.
As of this morning from 2 to 1, there were 34 countries and territories that were recording this variation, including: USA, UK, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France Germany, Iceland , India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Radio Loan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and more recently Vietnam.
Currently, many countries have banned or restricted travel with England and South Africa, which also discovered dangerous variants of the new strain of the corona virus.
Discovery of a new variant of the corona virus in Vietnam
