Thousands of passengers and crew on two cruise ships in Asian waters were placed in quarantine for China’s coronavirus on Wednesday as airlines, car manufacturers and other global companies counted the cost of the fast-spreading outbreak. Read More (m)
An official from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended the Malaysian authorities for their actions in managing and containing the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Read More (nst)
Four more cases of the coronavirus infection were confirmed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Wednesday (Feb 5), including the youngest patient confirmed so far, a six-month-old baby who is the child of an infected couple. Read More (thestar)
A baby in China’s epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born, Chinese state media reported Wednesday. Read More (thestar)
The Grand Hyatt Singapore is disinfecting its public areas and rooms after two business travellers linked to a conference at the hotel tested positive for the coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
Russia on Wednesday flew home its first group of 78 citizens from China's Wuhan, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, and plans to quarantine them for two weeks in a camp in Siberia while they are tested for the disease. Read More (thestar)
The Education Ministry has decided to postpone indefinitely registrations of students from Wuhan and the Hubei province in China at education institutions in Malaysia. Read More (nst)
The operations room at Wisma Putra will be activated Friday (Jan 31) night in anticipation of the evacuation of Malaysian citizens stranded in the Hubei province, due to the novel coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV) outbreak Read More (thestar)
Thirteen Chinese nationals from Wuhan working on the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project who went home for Chinese New Year have been told not to return to Malaysia until further notice. Read More (thestar)
Malaysia will donate 18 million pieces of medical gloves to China to assist in the fight against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic. Read More (thestar)
The number of cases of the Wuhan coronavirus has risen to nearly 10,000, surpassing the total number of cases in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) pandemic in 2003. Read More (thestar)
A news report claiming that a 23-year-old Indian national had died in Malaysia from the 2019 novel coronavirus is false. Read More (malaymail)
The Health Ministry is still trying to ascertain whether the 36-year-old mother who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was a case of human-to-human transmission. Read More (thestar)
Coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. Read More (bbc)
Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has dismissed as fake news a report carried by Indian media that an Indian national had died of the novel coronavirus in Malaysia Read More (malaysiakini)