19 December 2021. The Vietnam Ministry of Health urged scientists in institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the Ho Chi Minh City-based Pasteur Institute to race to detect Omicron variant, the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant, of concern genome sequencing of imported people infected with Covid-19 from November 28 till now.https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/health/ministry-urges-genome-sequencing-of-imported-covid19-cases-96379.html