Ministry of Health reports on the first case of Omicron variant infection in Vietnam

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officially announced the first case of COVID-19 infection with the Omicron strain in Vietnam at 12:00 on December 28. According to data from and (Vietnam-Germany Medical Research Center), the Ministry of Health has learned of the first case of Omicron variant infection in Vietnam:

The 108 Military Central Hospital received one case of a passenger on aircraft QH9028 from the United Kingdom to Vietnam on December 19, 2021. The traveller obtained a positive quick test result for SARS-CoV-2 virus

Noi Bai airport (on the evening of December 19, 2021). The passenger was from the airport to the 108 Military Central Hospital's , where they were . The used the RT-PCR technique to test for SARS-CoV-2, which yielded positive findings.

With

of the patient being a passenger returning from the UK, the Hospital used a using Oxford Nanopore (ONT) technology to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 genome infected on this patient on December 20, 2021, and the result was discovered to be a suspected Omicron mutant infection.

This would be the first instance of infection with the Omicron variant in Vietnam.

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