REUTERS, April 13 — A highly contagious variant of Covid-19 first identified in Britain does not cause more severe disease in hospitalised patients, according to a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — Malaysia has detected its first two Covid-19 cases of Nigerian SARS-CoV-2, also known as the B.1.525 variant, in two infected foreign nationals who had flown in from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 — A case of Covid-19 variant dubbed ‘UK B.1.1.7’ has been detected in Malaysia yesterday involving a traveller with a history of travel to the United Kingdom last month.