KOTA KINABALU: Health officials will need at least two more weeks to confirm whether umrah returnees who sparked a new Covid-19 cluster in Sandakan recently were carriers of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The first case from this cluster was detected on Dec 17 after their return from a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. State Health Department director Datuk Dr Rose Nani Mudin said due to the complexity of this variant, it would take time for the whole genome sequencing to be known.“ I think
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2022-01-02 00:00:00.0