The UN Security Council on Thursday (Feb 27) declared that it would adopt humanitarian exemptions to the heavy economic sanctions imposed on North Korea to help the impoverished country fight the novel coronavirus, Germany's ambassador to the UN said. Read More (thestar)
Japan is to ask all schools to close from Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, PM Shinzo Abe says. Read More (bbc)
Lebanon confirmed the country's third case of coronavirus on Thursday, after a man arriving from Iran on Feb. 24 tested positive, the health ministry said, according to news agency NNA. Read More (thestar)
The Health Ministry says a new case of Covid-19 has been detected, while two more positive cases have made full recovery Read More (thestar)
The patient recently visited Japan; when she returned to Malaysia from Japan on the 23rd of this month, she developed fever and went to a hospital in Kuala Lumpur the next day. Read More (outbreak)
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (Feb 27) called on public schools to close nationwide from March 2 to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
Donald Trump said Wednesday (Feb 26) he was considering travel restrictions on Italy and South Korea over Covid-19 fears, as he sought to reassure Americans worried about the epidemic. Read More (thestar)
KOTA KINABALU: The test on a suspected Covid-19 case in Kudat reported earlier has come back negative. Read More (thestar)
China reported 29 more deaths on Thursday (Feb 27) from the new coronavirus epidemic, the lowest daily figure in almost a month, and the number of fresh infections rose slightly. Read More (thestar)
More new cases of the coronavirus have been reported outside China than inside the hardest-hit country for the first time, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday (Feb 26). Read More (straitstimes)
As of Wednesday morning, over 400,000 South Koreans have signed an online petition calling for the impeachment of President Moon Jae-in over the government’s missteps in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More (thestar)
KOTA KINABALU: The Health Ministry has dismissed a report of Covid-19 in Kudat. Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah told the New Straits Times today no one had been infected with the coronavirus in the district. Read More (nst)
South Korea reported 284 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday (Feb 26), including a US soldier, as health authorities readied an ambitious plan to test more than 200,000 members of a church hit hardest by the country’s outbreak. Read More (straitstimes)
The IMR's Infectious Disease Research Centre Virology Unit chief said it was vital to quickly deliver results, enabling health authorities to immediately carry out contact tracing if results come back positive. Read More (thestar)
A male patient suspected of Covid-19 died on Feb 23 at Kariadi Central General Hospital in Semarang, Central Java, after being treated in an isolation room for nearly a week. Read More (thestar)