Covid-19: Melaka health authorities investigating how man contracted Delta variant


MELAKA: Health authorities here are investigating how a man with no interstate or overseas travel history in recent years became the first person in the state to be infected with the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) of Covid-19.

Melaka Health and Anti-Drug Committee chairman Datuk Rahmad Mariman said the man, who works at a company in Taman Merdeka here, also has no record of previously being in close contact with anyone who tested positive for Covid-19.

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