The pandemic is currently scourging Southeast Asia due in part to the new variants of the CCP virus. The Vietnamese government reported 161 new daily infection cases as of the early afternoon on June 1, bringing the national total number to 7,482 with at least 47 deaths related to the virus. The country was reporting double-digit infection cases in early May before seeing a spike on May 15 with 169 new infections, and another spike of 447 cases on May 25. Last Saturday, the Vietnamese health minister Nguyen Thanh Long held an online meeting, during which he spoke of a new hybrid that had characteristics of both the Indian and the UK variants, according to local media. The new hybrid brought to a total of at least seven coronavirus variants in the country. Long also warned that the virus was spreading fast in the country. In nearby Malaysia, the country …