Open AccessA Critical Appraisal of COVID-19 in Malaysia and Beyond
Author(s) -
Jafri Malin Abdullah,
Wan Faisham Wan Ismail,
Irfan Mohamad,
Asrenee Ab Razak,
Azian Harun,
Kamarul Imran Musa,
Yeong Yeh Lee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the malaysian journal of medical sciences/the malaysian journal of medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2180-4303
pISSN - 1394-195X
DOI - 10.21315/mjms2020.27.2.1
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , china , globe , geography , virology , economic growth , development economics , political science , medicine , outbreak , disease , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , pathology , ophthalmology
When the first report of COVID-19 appeared in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, the world unknowingly perceived this as another flu-like illness. Many were surprised at the extreme steps that China had subsequently taken to seal Wuhan from the rest of the world. However, by February 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, had spread so quickly across the globe that the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID-19 is not the first pandemic the world has seen, so what makes it so unique in Malaysia, is discussed to avoid a future coronacoma.