Reported from foreign media, that the variant was identified in a 19-year-old woman who had arrived from South Africa via Singapore on November 19.
She is a student at a private university in Ipoh, Perak, and has completed her Covid-19 vaccination.
The student was quarantined for 10 days before being released on November 29.
Authorities had re-tested earlier positive samples after the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced Omicron as a variant of concern on Nov 24, Mr Khairy said.
Five other people who shared a vehicle with the woman prior to her quarantine all tested negative.
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