HANOI, Jan 4 — A new version of Omicron called XBB has been recorded in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, Xinhua reported, quoting a local media report on Wednesday.

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.

JAKARTA, Oct 23 — Indonesia has reported the first local transmission of the Omicron XBB variant in the country.