Omicron variant is gaining dominance in Malaysia

The Health Ministry sequenced 186 Covid-19 samples since last Friday (Jan 14), all of which have turned out to be the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

According to findings announced by Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today, this brings the cumulative number of genomically confirmed Omicron cases in Malaysia to 439 – 385 imported and 54 locally transmitted cases.

By comparing today’s findings with those previously announced...