Past experience with other viruses helped M'sia manage Covid-19, says Health DG

CORONAVIRUS | Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has attributed the Ministry of Health's (MOH) preparedness to combat the Covid-19 pandemic to having managed and handled previous virus outbreaks like Nipah, Sars, Mers-Cov and H1N1.

"In December last year, when we (MOH) first heard about the Wuhan, China outbreak, we accepted the fact that it was inevitable the virus will reach our shores.