New Covid-19 variant being closely monitored, says Dzulkefly


KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is closely monitoring the spread of the new Covid-19 variant, XFG, despite the country being in the endemic phase.

Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, said that the XFG subvariant of Omicron was not considered worrying in terms of virulence, with only one death recorded so far.

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