Malaysia’s New Covid Cases Top 5,000 Again as Omicron Spreads
Members of the public wait to receive Covid-19 booster shots in Selangor, Malaysia.
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Malaysia’s new coronavirus cases rose to the highest level in more than a month as the highly contagious omicron variant starts to spread in the Southeast Asian nation.
The nation reported 5,439 new infections on Thursday, the most since Dec. 9, data from the health ministry show.