Covid-19: UK mutation not in M'sia yet, but local strain may be more infectious too

COVID-19 | The highly infectious Covid-19 strain that prompted UK authorities to scrap Christmas plans and impose a lockdown has yet to be found in Malaysia, said Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

However, he said there are signs that a local variant of the virus carrying the A701V mutation in its spike protein also has increased infectivity...