Child recovers from coronavirus infection, and 9 news from yesterday

1. A four-year-old girl who was warded in Langkawi has become the first case of a patient recovering from a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection in Malaysia. She is expected to return home to China soon.

2. A 41-year-old man from Selangor has become the first Malaysian to test positive for 2019-nCoV, after returning from a business trip in Singapore. He is reported to be in stable condition.

3. Despite being a protected species, sun bear populations in Malaysia are still on the decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

4. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mujahid Yusof Rawa has urged the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to investigate entrepreneur and singer Nur Sajat for her social media postings where she posed in female prayer attire in Mecca. Mujahid said the transgender person must perform umrah as a man.

5. Rosmah Mansor has been admitted to hospital for treatment for several days, ahead of her corruption trial scheduled for today.

6. A group of 107 Malaysians and their non-citizen spouses evacuated from Wuhan, China, have arrived in Malaysia. Two failed screening tests and were immediately admitted to hospital, while the remainder would be kept under quarantine for two weeks.

7. Amid allegations of a police cover-up, lawyers concurred with police claims that final pathology test reports to detect drug abuse could take months to complete.

8. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan said his country will do its best to buy up Malaysian palm oil after India threatened to cut imports.

9. Perak Amanah deputy chief Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin will initiate bankruptcy proceedings against Perak PAS commissioner Razman Zakaria after the latter failed to pay RM200,000 in damages as ordered by the court.

10. Penang has launched the first Hindu Directory, which contains contact information for Hindu temples and NGOs in the Northern region that provide meals, tuitions, medical services and more for free.