BATU PAHAT: Life goes on as usual in Kampung Bintang, Peserai, here despite 64 villagers being placed under a week-long house observation after showing symptoms of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Days after a 54-year-old man from the village died of the infection, self-employed Mustafa Ismail, 63, said most residents were still going around without their masks on “as if nothing had happened”.
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