Covid-19

105 close contacts have been quarantined pending results

The Netherlands among worst hit country in Europe by latest coronavirus wave

19-year-old issued mandatory quarantine order, remains asymptomatic, says Khairy Jamaluddin

This raises possibility that variant may already be spreading widely in community

This brings total detections of new strain in US to 8

Meanwhile, in Perak, 6 MRSM Sultan Azlan Shah students infected with virus

List combines 24 high-risk countries with 26 countries with confirmed cases of Omicron

60 million Moderna doses, 54 million Pfizer-BioNTech shots

It worries new Covid-19 variant adding to already high levels of uncertainty, risks

It proposes minimum 10-week shelf life for donated shots, at least 4 weeks’ notice for recipient countries

Incident notably first time such institution reports this many cases

Body says move could dissuade countries from sharing data about evolving virus

5,418 of them are domestic transmissions, 21 imported