Malaysia warns of rising number of COVID-19 deaths, cases among children

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Malaysia recorded the deaths of three children aged below five due to the coronavirus in the first five months of this year, the same number recorded over the whole of 2020.

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Malaysia recorded the deaths of three children aged below five due to the coronavirus in the first five months of this year, the same number recorded over the whole of 2020, according to Health Ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah. Noor Hisham did not say how many children had been tested for COVID-19 or if authorities planned to ramp up testing among minors.

Malaysia's total caseload shot past 600,000 on Friday, the third highest total in the region behind Indonesia and the Philippines.

 

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