{"id":118739,"date":"2021-04-15T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118739"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:10:13","slug":"covid-17-cases-of-south-african-b-1-351-variant-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118739","title":{"rendered":"COVID: 17 Cases Of South African B.1.351 Variant Detected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Seventeen COVID-19 cases with the South African B.1.351 variant have been detected in the country so far, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, he said the phylogenetic analysis, as well as geographical linkages, showed the probability that the locally transmitted cases have originated from the same source of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the South African B.1.351 variant was found in three cases of the Jalan Lima Cluster in Hulu Langat and Sepang districts, Selangor; Kebun Baru Cluster, Kuala Langat (nine cases); Teknologi Emas Cluster, Kuala Langat (one case) and close contact screening (one case).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Noor Hisham explained that the variant was initially detected in two cases of the Jalan Lima Cluster involving workers of a company based at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and one case each from the Kebun Baru Cluster and a close contact screening on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African B.1.351 variant was first detected in the United Kingdom and South Africa in December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since early this year, the presence of the variant was also reported in other countries including the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Seventeen COVID-19 cases with the South African B.1.351 variant have been detected in the country so far, Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said. In a statement Wednesday, he said the phylogenetic analysis, as well as geographical linkages, showed the probability that the locally transmitted cases have originated from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":109425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}