The Ministry of Health and Sports in Myanmar has announced detection of three new variants of the Covid-19 in five cities across the nation, according to Bloomberg.

Laboratory tests conducted by the Defence Service Medical Research Center under the Ministry of Defence reported 11 cases of new Covid variants including one in commercial capital Yangon, four in its second biggest city Mandalay, three in southern Myeik, two in northwestern Tamu and one in Kalay near the Myanmar-India border.

“In terms of mutated strain, we have found out from the tests that two people were infected with Alpha variant, five with Delta variant, and four with Kappa,” the ministry said in a statement. It also added that one of the newly infected is a Yangon resident who returned from abroad.