Health Ministry detects 19 Covid-19 variant cases in 12 days
Workers at a Kuala Lumpur restaurant wait for customers during the lockdown. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, June 4, 2021.
THE Health Ministry has reported 19 people contracting a Covid-19 variant of concern from May 24 to date, said director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. According to Noor Hisham, said there were four Delta variant cases – previously known as the Indian variant – and 15 Beta cases, formerly known as the South African variant.
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