Putrajaya has decided to hit pause on the shift to an endemic phase for Covid-19 in the country due to the discovery of the new variant Omicron, said Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

“For the time being, we have decided to pause our efforts in transitioning to the endemic phase until we learn more about the Omicron variant of concern (VOC).

“We are not postponing it, we are only pausing it for a while because we want to...