Another 162 Omicron cases detected, says Health DG


PETALING JAYA: A total of 162 Omicron cases were detected in the country in the past 24 hours.

In his daily Covid-19 update yesterday, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Institute of Medical Research identified 89 new cases, the University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine 71 new cases and the Malaysia Genome and the Vaccine Institute two new cases.

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