‘Stick to SOP whichever the strain’

Keeping a close eye: Foreign workers waiting to be given a swab test at the Pasar Borong Meru in Klang. — KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star

PETALING JAYA: The UK variant of the Covid-19 virus is transmitted in the same way as the other variants and keeping strictly to the current SOP should suffice, say public health medicine specialists.

Assoc Prof Dr Mohammad Farhan Rusli from International Islamic University of Malaysia likened the UK variant to the thousands of mutations in the influenza virus and said the priority should be to stop an outbreak if it does arrive on Malaysian shores.