1 Covid-19 death, new variant detected by health ministry
One Covid -19 death was recorded by the health ministry in Epidemiological Week 35/2025 (EW35).
This was revealed by health minister Dzulkefly Ahmad in a post on X last night, Bernama reported.
He said that the deceased was a bedridden 91-year-old senior citizen.
“This brings the total number of Covid-19 deaths this year to three (as reported in EW 24/2025, EW 30/2025, and EW 35/2025),” he added.
The minister also said that a new Covid-19 variant, XFG, had been detected, accounting for 8.2% of the total cases recorded in EW35.
He added that the number of new cases in EW35 showed a 12.8% decrease, with 594 cases compared with 681 in EW34.
According to Dzulkefly, through genomic surveillance, the NB 1.8.1 variant remained dominant, accounting for 39.4% of the cases, followed by JN.1 (18.1%)…
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