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.
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