variants of concern

This brings the overall total number of cases infected with ARS-CoV-2 virus, categorised as VOC and Variant of Interest to 7,754.

The report said Omicron continued to increase its dominance globally over the other variants of concern.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) detected 134 new cases involving variants of concern (VOC) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from Oct 7 to 19, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

Delta has all but elbowed out the three other Covid-19 VOC, which now represent a tiny fraction of the samples being sequenced, WHO said.

Ongoing studies by three research institutes in the country have identified 265 cases involving Variants of Concern (VOC), namely the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from Aug 16 to 29.

Dr Noor Hisham said the number brought the cumulative cases infected classified as variants of concern and variants of interest to 439 cases.

Twenty-eight cases of new variants of SARS-COV-2 virus, with 25 cases being Variants of Concern (VOC) and three cases being Variants of Interest (VOI), were reported from June 23 to 30.

The Health Ministry (MOH) has detected six more COVID-19 positive cases involving variants of concern (VOC) in the country between June 20 and 22.

The National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) of the MOH has detected 22 more COVID-19 positive cases involving two variants of concern (VOCs) between June 11 and yesterday.

The MOH has detected a total of 23 cases of COVID-19 Variants of Concern (VOC) as a result of continuous genomic surveillance from June 3 to June 8.

The Ministry of Health has detected a total of 19 Variant of Concern (VOC) COVID-19 cases, namely four Delta variant cases (B.1.617.2) and 15 Beta variant cases (B.1.351) from May 24 till today.

Dr Noor Hisham said those VOC spread rapidly and were also linked to high fatality rates.

The Health Ministry has detected another 30 COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) in Malaysia - 27 of the South African variant (B.1.351) and three of the United Kingdom (UK) variant (B.117).

It is a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the new COVID-19 variants in Malaysia.

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