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KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 3): Based on the latest findings, experts in China have stated that novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) "could be transmitted through the digestive system", Xinhua reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 3): China has been Malaysia’s third biggest tourist source country after Singapore and Indonesia since 2012, displacing Thailand from the top three.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 3): To say Malaysia’s much anticipated Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY2020) is not off to a good start is probably an understatement, what with the severe blow dealt to the tourism industry by the Wuhan virus, now a global health emergency that has caused the death of over 300 and infected over 14,000 worldwide since the start of the outbreak at end-December.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): Malaysia's economy could be hit harder by the Wuhan virus outbreak compared with the SARS outbreak in 2003, should concerns about the latest coronavirus infection persist as long as it did during the SARS episode, said Credit Suisse.

PUTRAJAYA (Jan 31): China’s ambassador to Malaysia Bai Tian has called on Sabah and Sarawak to review the decision to ban all flights from his country, the centre of the novel coronavirus epidemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): Motorists plying highways managed by PLUS Malaysia Bhd will enjoy an 18% reduction in toll rates from midnight.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): Beijing has not given the greenlight for Malaysia to use military transport planes to evacuate our citizens stuck in Hubei province and Wuhan as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah (pictured) said, reported Malaysiakini.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 31): The National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) has called for airline companies to immediately suspend all flights to China owing to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in the People’s Republic.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): All life insurance companies and takaful operators in the country will provide hospitalisation coverage/treatment for the Wuhan novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to their policyholders/certificate holders.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 31): With the global infection cases of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) now closing in on the 10,000 mark, this means that it has surpassed the “total number of cases in the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) pandemic in 2003”, reported The Star today.