After China and South Korea, the Sarawak government is now banning foreign travellers coming in from Italy and Iran to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Read More (thestar)
South Korea reported 516 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a day after a record spike in cases prompted the country's president to declare a "war" on the fast spreading pathogen. Read More (thestar)
PETALING JAYA: All seven new Covid-19 cases reported on Tuesday (March 3) were found to have been in close contact with the country's 26th patient, says the Health Ministry. Read More (thestar)
BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Suvarnabhumi Airport immigration police today (March 3) found that eight Thai labourers returning from South Korea were suspected of being infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
Malaysia has recorded seven new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases recorded to date to 36. Read More (thestar)
AS the Covid-19 coronavirus spreads quickly around the world, US health officials say they are “aggressively” assessing how long it can survive on surfaces to better understand the risk of transmission. Read More (nst)
South Korea reported 600 new coronavirus cases and three more deaths from the virus, taking total infections to 4,812, the Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. Read More (nst)
Panic buying hit supermarkets and drugstores across Jakarta on March 2 following President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's announcement on the country's first two confirmed cases of Covid-19. Read More (thestar)
PANTAI Hospital Kuala Lumpur has confirmed three cases of Covid-19 at the hospital. Read More (nst)
Fifty years ago, a much richer Iraqi government spent lavishly on health funding. The state company responsible for drug imports, known by its Arabic acronym KIMADIA, enjoyed such a close relationship with the world's top drug manufacturers that it would Read More (thestar)
TEHERAN: Iran said Monday (March 2) that the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak had killed 12 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country's overall death toll to 66. Read More (thestar)
The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday the EU's disease prevention agency had raised its assessment of coronavirus risks in the bloc to high, as the outbreak spread to most EU states. Read More (thestar)
All Istana Negara officers and staff members were tested for Covid-19 on Monday (March 2). Read More (thestar)
Japanese authorities have confirmed five more cases of coronavirus in Hokkaido, public broadcaster NHK said on Monday, days after the northern island declared a state of emergency. Read More (thestar)
Reports of a former minister and former deputy minister who were exposed to a Covid-19 patient are still being investigated, says the Health Ministry. Read More (thestar)