News about coronavirus

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): 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.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 31): There are 1,982 new cases of the Wuhan virus in China.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): The decision by the government to allow the return of Malaysians who are stranded in Hubei province is the right thing for a government to do for its citizens, according to the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA).

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): At the height of the pesky haze last year, many Malaysians discovered that the N95 face mask was superior to the three-ply and single-ply masks to keep out the toxic air.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): The Malaysian government is not discounting bringing forward its stimulus packages planned to address the US-China trade war risks in light of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, but only if it is really necessary, said Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 30): Airlines face risks from the coronavirus outbreak similar to those that gripped the industry from another rapidly spreading illness in 2003, according to an S&P Global Ratings.