Residents of the capital of Vietnam are isolated. The number of patients with COVID-19 has sharply increased in the country

In Vietnam on July 17 registered 3,718 new cases of coronavirus infection, the highest. According to information Reuters, for the third day in a row, more than 3 thousand cases are registered in the country. The country is home to about 98 million people.

Vietnam has received nearly 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and the US Embassy in Hanoi has announced that the United States will provide the country with an additional 3 million doses of Moderna vaccine through the COVAX mechanism.

At the end of May this year in Vietnam discovered a new strain of coronavirus infection, a hybrid of “British” and “Indian” strains. The emergence of such a strain has affected the growth of morbidity in the country. In total, seven strains of coronavirus were registered in Vietnam: B.1.222, B.1.619, D614G, B.1.1.7 (“British” version), B.1.351, A.23.1 and B.1.617.2 (“Indian” version).

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An outbreak of coronavirus infection began at the end of 2019 in China. 11 March 2020 World Health Organization declared the spread of coronavirus a pandemic.

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