Insurance companies will provide coronavirus coverage despite exclusion for diseases with legal quarantine


KUALA LUMPUR: Insurance companies here have pledged to provide hospitalisation coverage and treatment to their policy holders during the coronavirus outbreak.

In a statement Friday (Jan 31), the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM) and Malaysian Takaful Association (MTA) said the World Health Organisation (WHO) had just declared the outbreak of the coronavirus as a global health emergency.

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