A year of difficulty provides valuable experience for Malaysia's MOF to deaL with pandemic impact


KUALA LUMPUR, March 7 (Bernama): Like other countries around the world, Malaysia was not spared the fury of the Covid-19 pandemic and suffered the devastating consequences.

With over 310,000 cases of infection nationwide and more than 1,000 deaths, the pandemic, which was first detected in late 2019, also wreaked havoc on the country's economic sector as never seen before.

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