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PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is scheduled to give a special speech on the Covid-19 situation in the country at 6pm on Tuesday (October 6).
The address will be broadcast live on Malaysian television channels RTM, BernamaTV, TV3 and Astro Awani.
It will also be streamed live on Muhyiddin’s official Facebook page.
In the past week, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country has skyrocketed to record levels, with 432 cases recorded on Monday (October 5).
The virus first emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, where it had later spread to other countries around the world.
The virus arrived in the country on January 24, and most cases had a history of travel to affected countries.
As of Monday, the country has registered 12,813 cases with 137 deaths.
Globally, the virus has so far killed 1,033,510 people with a total of 34,850,553 recorded cases, and the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a pandemic in March.
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