A TOTAL of 186 new Covid-19 cases of the Omicron variant of concern (VOC) were reported in Malaysia between January 14 and today, Health Director-General  Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.

He said the Integrative Pharmacogenomics Institute, Universiti Teknologi Mara (iPROMISE-UiTM) detected 46 new cases, the Tropical Infectious Diseases Research & Education Centre (43) and Malaysia Genome and Vaccine Institute (MGI) (43).

Apart from this, the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) detected 28 new cases while the Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (IHCM-UNIMAS) detected 26 new cases.

“This brings the cumulative figure for SARS-CoV-2 infections categorised as VOC and variant of interest (VOI) to 6,432 cases. Of this number, 6,412 cases are VOC while 20 cases are VOI,” he said in a statement today. – Bernama, January 18, 2022.