NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization called for"aggressive" action in Southeast Asia to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus, warning on Tuesday that some countries were heading towards community transmission of the deadly disease.
"We need to immediately scale up all efforts to prevent the virus from infecting more people," said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO's regional director. Many of the country's infections have been linked to a global Islamic event held last month and attended by almost 20,000 people.READ: Malaysia bars citizens from going overseas, foreigners from entering country for 2 weeks to curb COVID-19 spread
Don't count on illegal government of Malaysia. They're clueless about anything. Playing golf infighting with umno and pas. Country going to rots, yet they trying to see who is boss
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