Indonesia detects more cases of B117 coronavirus variant as Mount Merapi emits hot clouds again

Lava flows down from the crater of Mount Merapi, Indonesias most active volcano, as seen from Kaliurang in Yogyakarta on March 8, 2021. - AFP

JAKARTA, March 8 (Xinhua): The Indonesian government reported on Monday four new confirmed cases of the virus variant originally discovered in Britain known as B117, a more transmissible variant than Covid-19.

The new cases were announced by the country's health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin at a press conference on Monday.