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Hisham Hamdan is Malaysia’s Covid-19 Case 26…
Posted on March 4, 2020
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Case 26 infected 120 others.
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Malaysia has seen Covid-19 mutations, warns of aggressive infectivity
Hariz Mohd
Published 29 Apr 2020, 6:44 pm
Modified 7:16 am
CORONAVIRUS | The health authority has detected mutations of Covid-19 virus in the country and warns of their aggressive infectivity.
According to Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, one of the mutations they found was in “Case 26” who had so far infected 120 others.
“We were made to understand that there are 30 mutations of the virus so far. And in the Institute for Medical Research (IMR), we are doing virus isolation and virus culture.
“We have found that ‘Case 26’, for example, had one mutation. And maybe because of this mutation it caused the virus to become more aggressive, infecting 120 others.
“The new mutations are even more aggressive, that is for sure,” said Noor Hisham.
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For the record, “Case 26” has been identified as Hisham Hamdan, who is the chairperson of UDA Holdings and executive director of Khazanah.
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“Case 26” had travelled to Shanghai, China in mid-January before he started developing symptoms on Feb 27. He then sought treatment at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre. He was later treated at the Sungai Buloh Hospital after being tested positive with Covid-19, which also saw health authority scrambling to test all his close contacts and family members.
Elaborating further about mutations of Covid-19 in the country, Noor Hisham said IMR had established that most of the positive cases detected in the first wave and early part of the second wave of the outbreak were of Strain B.
Strain B is the strain that was traced back to Wuhan, China, while Strain A was mostly found in the US and Strain C mostly found in Europe.
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weehingthong 
He missed infecting the new government. Close but no cigar.