Health Ministry: Reports about coronavirus death in M'sia is fake news


PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has rubbished a report that a 23-year-old man from Tripura, India died in a Malaysian hospital after being infected by coronavirus.

"Based on information that we received as of 6pm on Jan 30, there is no record of any Indian national aged 23 recorded by our laboratory that tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). #FakeNews," it tweeted on Thursday (Jan 30) night.

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