Malaysia reported 179 new cases of coronavirus or COVID-19 on Sunday which took the total number of infection cases to 3,662 as the Southeast Asian nation grapples with the biggest number of infection in the region.
Coronavirus crisis in Malaysia
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The new cases include four deaths, raising the tally to 61 people who have died as of noon on Sunday, the health ministry said. The coronavirus outbreak has created a major stir around the world infecting more than one million people and claiming the lives of cover 64,000 people globally.
The WHO has described the virus outbreak as a pandemic and the new epicentre of the virus outbreak is probably the US. The virus originated from the Chinese city of Wuhan in the Hubei province.
(With agency inputs)