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A Critical Appraisal of COVID-19 in Malaysia and Beyond

Author(s) -

Jafri Malin Abdullah,

Wan Faisham Wan Ismail,

İrfan Mohamad,

Asrenee Ab Razak,

Azian Harun,

Kamarul Imran Musa,

Yeong Yeh Lee

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

malaysian journal of medical sciences

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 , political science , development economics , medicine , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , 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.

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