Australian officials found a case of a person in Sydney who was infected with Covid-19 by a stranger just walking past them; two other cases were believed to be infected in similar fashion.
Labuan may also get 30,000 vaccine doses within a fortnight amid its outbreak; Labuan’s Covid-19 incidence rate from May 31-June 13 hit 24.96 cases per 1,000 population, 5 times higher than Selangor.
Khairy Jamaluddin also says the interval dosage of Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines may be maintained or shortened respectively in areas with high prevalence of variants of concern.
One new Covid-19 case with the South African B.1.351 variant was infected after vaccination; no other details available. New real-world results from Qatar show Pfizer’s vaccine protects against severe Covid-19 caused by the B.1.351 and UK’s B.1.1.7 variants.