Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said six local studies on Covid-19 spike protein mutation detected 475 variants of concern (VOC) between Sept 13 and today, involving 472 Delta variants and three Beta variants.
They were identified through sustained studies by the Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM-Unimas), Malaysia Genome Institute (MGI), Integrative Pharmacogenomics Institute (iPROMISE-UiTM), Institute for Medical Research (IMR), UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI-UKM) and Tropical Infectious Diseases Research & Education Centre (TIDREC-UM).
Noor Hisham said this brings the cumulative cases categorised as VOC and variants of interest (VOI) to 1,860 cases today, with 1,840 cases being VOC and 20 being VOI.
"Overall, so far for VOC, there are 1,612 cases of Delta variant, 214 cases of Beta variant and 14 cases of Alpha variant. For VOI, there are 13 cases of Theta variant, four cases of Kappa variant and three cases of Eta variant,” he added in a statement today.
He said data on deaths and other data on the current situation of Covid-19 infections in Malaysia would be uploaded on GitHub and CovidNow.
- Bernama
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