medcom.id Health Minister Confirms 2 Fresh Cases of New Coronavirus Variants
Jakarta: Indonesian Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin confirmed that two fresh cases of new covid-19 variants have been detected in Indonesia.
"We are currently monitoring the new mutation every week. Last week, two new cases of virus mutation are found in East Java; both patients are Indonesian Migrant Workers who just returned from Malaysia. One of them was infected by the South African variant, and the other was infected by the United Kingdom variant," he said after joining a limited meeting on the handling of covid-19 pandemic on Monday in Jakarta, as quoted from the Cabinet Secretariat's website.