PUTRAJAYA: As Malaysia braces itself for a possible fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Ministry is now also on alert after the discovery of new variants of the virus in the country.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said from genome sequencing conducted by the Institute for Medical Research (IMR), at least 22 samples were found to contain variants originating from Britain, Nigeria and South Africa since February.
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