PUTRAJAYA: The Tawar and Sivagangga clusters are likely to be linked, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. This is from the 14 samples that we have researched, ” said Dr Noor Hisham at the ministry’s press conference Thursday (Aug 27). “Now we need to focus on the Tawar cluster, ” said Dr Noor Hisham. Prior to this, IMR detected the D614G mutation in the samples of the PUI Sivagangga cluster and the Ulu Tiram cluster in Johor. Dr Noor Hisham previously said the mutation is 10 times likely to infect other individuals.

Source: thestar August 27, 2020 10:52 UTC