Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Tan Long has announced the discovery of a new type of COVID-19, a mixture of British and Indian variants.

Axar.az reports that this was reported by The Independent.

The health minister said the new variant was more contagious and that laboratory tests had shown that the virus was multiplying rapidly.

"As a result of genetic research on new patients, we have discovered a new variant of a mixture of Indian and British species.

More specifically, the variant found is an Indian variant with mutations that belong to the British variant."