Kota Kinabalu: Sabah’s first Omicron case announced by Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin yesterday was detected in Tawau, said spokesman for the crisis Datuk Masidi Manjun.
The local man performed umrah in Saudi Arabia with his wife between Dec 9 and 18 and returned to Malaysia on Dec 19 via the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, said Masidi in a statement today.
The man and his wife arrived in Tawau on Dec 20 and underwent home quarantine before the result of his sample’s whole genomic sequencing showed him positive for Omicron yesterday.
The sequencing result for his wife’s sample is still pending.
Both completed their quarantine on Jan 1 and have recovered from the virus.
The man was one of 58 new Omicron cases nationwide announced by Khairy yesterday.
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