Ministries, universities and labs to team up to track the spread of virus variants


PETALING JAYA: With over a hundred Covid-19 cases so far listed under either the Variants of Concern (VOC) or Variants of Interest (VOI) categories, the Health Ministry is ramping up genomic surveillance to map out the spread of these strains which have a high infectivity rate.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the ministry was collaborating with universities, the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry and private labs to increase the capacity of genomic testing.

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