In a statement last night, the ministry said students from other provinces in China were allowed to register for study in Malaysia under close observation by the respective learning institutions.

The ministry also advised all learning institutions in Malaysia to undertake precautionary measures as announced by the health ministry.

“This includes monitoring the health status of their respective educationists and administration staff as well as students who had just returned from China,” it said.

Claims of death of Indian national not true, says health ministry

The health ministry denied a news report claiming a 23-year-old Indian national had died in Malaysia from coronavirus infection.

The ministry said in its official Facebook account there were no Indian nationals listed in the records of its laboratory testing clinical samples for coronavirus.

According to the report in an Indian news portal, the man’s grandfather claimed he had received a call from the Malaysian authorities on Wednesday, informing him that his grandson had died.