Saturday, 24 Apr 2021 08:42 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Director-General of Health Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah showing a placard ‘I have TAKEN 2 DOS’ after receiving the second injection of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from Chief Nurse Lina Ibrahim at the Putrajaya Precinct 18 Health Clinic, Putrajaya, March 17, 2021. — Bernama pic
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — Four more cases of the South African variant of the Covid-19 virus that were locally transmitted have been identified in Malaysia, Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today.
This is on top of 17 Covid-19 cases of the South African variant B.1.351 reported to the Health Ministry from January to March 2021, which brings the total of such cases in the country now to 21.