Malaysia's minister of health Ong Ye Kung "said the estimated number of Covid-19 cases in the week of May 5 to May 11 rose to 25,900 cases, compared with 13,700 cases in the previous week. The average daily Covid-19 hospitalisations rose to about 250 from 181 the week before."
May 10 There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick? (Los Angeles Times) - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/could-new-covid-19-variant-flirt-lead-to-summer-surge-in-infections
“The two FLiRT subvariants combined comprised an estimated 35% of coronavirus infections nationally for the two-week period that began April 28," according to the U.S. CDC. "By contrast, JN.1 is now believed to comprise 16% of infections; in mid-winter, it was blamed for more than 80%.”
"California may be headed to an earlier-than-normal start to the summer COVID-19 season, with coronavirus concentrations in sewage rising in some areas along with the statewide positive-test rate.
The trend comes as the latest family of coronavirus subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, have made significant gains nationally."