KUCHING, Feb 6 — The Omicron variant has now replaced Delta as the dominant circulating Covid-19 variant in Sarawak, said Prof Dr David Perera.
He revealed this in his latest report to the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee chairman Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas today. He said the 78 per cent detection rate suggested that Omicron had now replaced Delta as the dominant variant in Sarawak. Moreover, he said the majority of Omicron cases were of the BA.1.1 lineage but three cases of the more infectious BA.2 lineage were identified in Kapit.In the light of the increasing number of cases in the country, Dr David, a member of Sarawak Covid-19 Vaccine Advisory Group , advised those who had yet to get their booster dose to do so immediately.
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