Sirim Berhad has confirmed that one of its employees has tested positive for Covid-19. Read More (thestar)
Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in central China's Hubei Province, has closed all of its 16 public facility-turned temporary hospitals as the number of Covid-19 patients continues to drop in the city. Read More (thestar)
Lawmakers have urged the government to bolster interinstitutional coordination to improve the detection of Covid-19 cases across the country, given that a number of patients seem to have slipped under its radar only to be identified later beyond the count Read More (thestar)
A church, private college and business park in the Klang Valley have carried out disinfection measures at their premises following reports of confirmed Covid-19 cases there. Read More (thestar)
A spokesman for Motorola in Bayan Lepas yesterday confirmed that one of its engineers tested positive for the virus. Read More (thestar)
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) confirms that a visitor who came to its Jalan Raja Laut branch on Feb 27 has tested positive for Covid-19. Read More (thestar)
Penang recorded one Covid-19 case today, when an employee of American data communications and telecommunications equipment provider Motorola Solutions tested positive for the virus. Read More (nst)
The total number of cases in Malaysia so far is 129 with 25 recovered. Read More (facebook)
Poland's government has decided to cancel all mass events due to the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday. Read More (thestar)
The Czech Republic will suspend schools other than universities from Wednesday, and ban events hosting more than 100 people, as the government steps up measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Tuesday. Read More (thestar)
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 is growing around the world, and as the epicentre of the outbreak shifts away from China, it is unlikely that the disease will taper off like SARS did, said experts on Monday Read More (thestar)
An Italian cruise ship turned away by Malaysian and Thai ports has docked in Singapore. Read More (thestar)
Pharmacies are still facing a shortage of face masks despite an increase in the production of three-ply masks during the current Covid-19 scare. Read More (thestar)
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official said on Monday the agency had received reports of more than 500 cases of coronavirus until last evening and that it expects the bulk of testing in the country to be done by commercial labs. Read More (thestar)
The Ministry of Health today announced that Brunei registered its first positive COVID-19 case. The patient is a 53-year old man who returned to Brunei from Kuala Lumpur on March 3 2020 with three other friends. Read More (twitter)