Ministry of Defence General Tea Banh announced tonight a military officer has been infected with COVID-19 despite receiving his second dose.

“I would like to call on all troops who are doing the vaccination work to be more careful,” he said, adding that they must follow the Health Ministry’s health measures strictly.

Recently, a military personnel and a journalist were found infected with COVID-19 despite being vaccinated for the first dose

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:38 am And it was the Sinopharm one, so there's that too.

Apollo91881 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:17 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 3:45 pm
its called the UK variant because thats where it was discovered, like how the spanish flu is called the spanish flu, the UK variant is pretty well spread now across the world, it could have come from anywhere

Not to be an A-hole or cause a shit storm, because I understand how those of lesser minds can take something too far and use it as a justification for racism as seems to be happening in the US, but isn't it a little hypocritical that we can call something the UK variant, but not the Chinese virus?

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:50 pm Things are getting more complicated..

A new coronavirus variant found in France can hide from COVID-19 nasal-swab tests

A region of France has been beset by a version of the coronavirus that can hide from standard tests. The French ministry of health and social affairs announced Monday that among a cluster of 79 COVID-19 cases in Brittany, eight patients were infected with the new variant, but several of them tested negative. Despite those negative tests, the patients showed typical COVID-19 symptoms.

The new variant does not yet have a alphanumeric designation. But it’s not the first variant that appears able to evade testing. Finnish researchers announced last month that they had identified a strain named Fin-796H with a mutation that made it difficult to detect with some nasal-swab tests, too.

An inability to accurately diagnose infected people could make it harder to curtail the virus’s spread at a time when cases across Europe are already spiking.

Full: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coro ... sts-2021-3

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:30 am

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:50 pm Things are getting more complicated..

A new coronavirus variant found in France can hide from COVID-19 nasal-swab tests

A region of France has been beset by a version of the coronavirus that can hide from standard tests. The French ministry of health and social affairs announced Monday that among a cluster of 79 COVID-19 cases in Brittany, eight patients were infected with the new variant, but several of them tested negative. Despite those negative tests, the patients showed typical COVID-19 symptoms.

The new variant does not yet have a alphanumeric designation. But it’s not the first variant that appears able to evade testing. Finnish researchers announced last month that they had identified a strain named Fin-796H with a mutation that made it difficult to detect with some nasal-swab tests, too.

An inability to accurately diagnose infected people could make it harder to curtail the virus’s spread at a time when cases across Europe are already spiking.

Full: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coro ... sts-2021-3

I'm trying to figure out the ramifications of this news. Once you get past the obvious question of: if they can't detect it, how do they know it exists?

However, the international travel situation might become even worse. Some countries might start thinking that if shoving a swab up everyone's noses at the airport doesn't work anymore, maybe they should completely seal their borders until they can figure out what to do?

This obviously does not include Chinese nationals sneaking across the border with Vietnam or Laos. They will continue to be welcomed as usual.