Covid-19: Malaysia’s 10th victim is also Penang’s first

By LIEW JIA XIAN

GEORGE TOWN: The 74-year-old man who died on Sunday (March 22) marked the first Covid-19 fatality in the state.

The man, the 10th to die of the disease in Malaysia, showed symptoms on March 8 and was warded in Penang Hospital on March 13.

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