Health D-G: 392 Covid-19 cases involving VOC detected until yesterday | Malay Mail

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Health D-G: 392 Covid-19 cases involving VOC detected until yesterday

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — A total of 392 positive Covid-19 cases involving variants of concern was detected in the country from Sept 25 until yesterday, according to Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

He said the latest development brought the cumulative number of cases categorised as VOC and Variants Under Monitoring to 2,252 cases. Dr Noor Hisham said of the 2,252 cases detected, a total of 2,232 cases were VOC and 20 others were variants of interest . “Overall, there are 1,996 Delta variant cases, 222 Beta variant cases and 14 Alpha variant cases are in the VOC category,” he said.

The World Health Organisation has, on Sept 30, listed Theta, Kappa and Eta under the VUM. Previously, all three were categorised as VOI.

 

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