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Another 162 Omicron cases detected

Just over 7,000 Covid-19 cases involving variants of concern and interest have been detected in the country so far.

Bernama
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Malaysia has detected 7,056 variant of concern and variant of interest cases so far.
Malaysia has detected 7,056 variant of concern and variant of interest cases so far.

A total of 162 new Covid-19 cases categorised as involving variants of concern (VOC) were detected from Jan 23 to 25, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the Institute for Medical Research had identified 89 cases while the Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya detected 71 cases and the Malaysia Genome and Vaccine Institute detected two cases, all of which were the Omicron variant.

“This brings the cumulative number of cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus categorised as VOC and variants of interest (VOI) to 7,056.

“Of the total detected, 7,036 cases were VOC while 20 cases were VOI,” he said in a statement.

To date, the VOC cases comprise 6,188 Delta cases, 601 Omicron, 233 Beta and 12 Alpha.

The VOI cases comprise 13 Theta cases, four Kappa and three Eta.

A total of 13 new clusters were reported yesterday, bringing the number of active clusters to 244.

The infectivity rate or Rt of Covid-19 in Malaysia as of Jan 24 was 1.09.