KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 — The Health Ministry (MOH) is closely tracking the recent Covid-19 wave in Singapore, which has seen a twofold increase in cases.

JAKARTA, Dec 19 — The Indonesian Health Ministry confirmed the finding of cases of transmission of Covid-19 with the variant JN.1 in Jakarta and Batam City, Riau Islands Province.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 3 — A total of 3,626 Covid-19 cases were reported during the 47th epidemiology week (ME 47/2023) from November 19 to 25, an increase of 57.3 per cent compared to the 2,305 cases recorded from the previous week.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 — Two main Covid-19 variants that are found to be spreading rapidly in China, namely BA.5.2 and BF.7, that accounted for almost 80 per cent of the variants found in China currently, have been detected in Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — Five Omicron BA.5 variant cases have been detected in Malaysia and are likely to spread widely, resulting in an increase in Covid-19 cases, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

SINGAPORE, May 16 — Singapore has detected two local Covid-19 cases infected with the BA.4 variant, and one local case infected with the BA.5 variant, according to the republic’s Health Ministry (MOH).

KLANG, Jan 16 — There has been no proven public health approach that one should be infected with the Covid-19 Omicron variant to help build herd immunity, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said.

PUTRAJAYA, December 25 — A total of 49 new cases of Covid-19 infection of the Omicron variant have been detected in Malaysia, bringing the cumulative number of cases of the variant in the country to 62.

KAPAR, Nov 28 — The Health Ministry (MOH) is constantly monitoring reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) as well as other countries on the new Covid-19 B.1.1.529 variant, now named Omicron.

LONDON, Nov 26 — Britain on Thursday said it was concerned by a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa that might make vaccines less effective and imperil efforts to fight the pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 — There is no Mu Covid-19 variant detected from samples taken across the country so far, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti) announced.

PUTRAJAYA, July 5 —  A total 584 Covid-19 cases in Malaysia were found to due to new variants involving more widespread and faster as well as airborne transmission, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 — 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.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — The National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) of the Ministry of Health (MOH) has detected 22 more Covid-19 positive cases involving two variants of concern (VOCs) between June 11 and yesterday, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

REUTERS, June 4 — A Covid-19 variant which Vietnam authorities thought was a combination of the Indian and UK strains is not a new hybrid but part of the existing Indian strain, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Vietnam told Nikkei.

PUTRAJAYA, May 31 — The new hybrid variant of Covid-19 which has the characteristics of the Indian and United Kingdom variants found in Vietnam has not been detected in other countries including Malaysia, said Health director-general Tan Sri Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 — The Health Ministry last week detected 13 new cases of Variant of Concern (VOC) involving 12 cases of South African variant B.1.351 and one Indian variant B.1.617 from Covid-19 samples.

PUTRAJAYA, May 11 — The people have been advised to continue to adhere to standard operating procedures (SOPs) as new variants of Covid-19 have spread to several states such as Kelantan, Kedah and Negeri Sembilan, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

PUTRAJAYA, May 9 — The new Covid-19 variants have been identified as among factors why more young people are getting infected with worsening symptoms, causing them to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — Health Ministry has detected its first case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant first identified in India, said its minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba, days after imposing a ban on flights from India.