Covid-19: Sivagangga cluster may be linked to super-spreader virus strain, says Health DG

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PETALING JAYA: There is a possibility that the Sivagangga cluster in Kedah is from a super-spreader strain of Covid-19, says Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

The Health director-general said the cluster had a faster rate of transmission compared with the nine other clusters in other states.

“We have to test the sample in the labs and see the genomic sequence of the virus, ” he said at a media briefing Thursday . Dr Noor Hisham said of the new cases, five were imported involving three Malaysians and two non-Malaysians."The six local transmissions were linked to the Sivagangga cluster in Kedah, while two cases were found in Negri Sembilan, one from Kuala Lumpur and another from Labuan," Dr Noor Hisham said.

 

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