Fake news: FB post, messages on suspected coronavirus cases in Pahang


KUANTAN (Bernama): Pahang Health director Datuk Dr Bahari Awang Ngah has confirmed that there is no case of infection of the new 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) recorded in any hospital in the state so far.

He said the post that went viral on Facebook, allegedly posted by the administrator of Kuantan City’s page, claiming that there had been a positive case of the 2019-nCoV virus at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Hospital here is not true.

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