Jakarta, March 7 : After a year since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities in Indonesia have found two cases infected with the variant of the virus which was first found in the UK late last year.
Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono confirmed the development, saying: “I received information that right after one year we found a B117 mutation in Indonesia,” Xinhua news agency reported.
The country detected the coronavirus disease for the first time on March 2, 2020.
He said the two cases of the new variant were found on Monday evening in the Karawang district, West Java province.
Two women tested positive for the B117 coronavirus mutation.
They were migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and arrived in Indonesia at the end of January 2021.
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