Malaysia has so far figured out how to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, with constrained neighbourhood transmissions, the nation’s wellbeing clergyman told CNBC on Wednesday.

Malaysia has announced 22 instances of the new coronavirus as of Tuesday — the third-most noteworthy number in Southeast Asia behind Singapore and Thailand, as per information aggregated by Johns Hopkins University. Officially named COVID-19, the new infection is accepted to have started in Wuhan, China.

Of those cases, 13 have recouped and there hasn’t been any revealed passing up until this point, the information appeared.

The leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Chinese clinical information shows that in excess of 80 percent of patients have gentle side effects and will recuperate, while 14 percent experience the ill effects of serious complexities, for example, pneumonia, 5 percent are in basic condition and 2 percent pass on from the sickness.

The UN wellbeing office’s boss likewise said that kids were not experiencing COVID-19 equivalent to grown-ups and that the danger of death expands the more established you are.

Malaysia’s wellbeing service prior said six of the 22 affirmed cases are Malaysians, and just two of them got the infection locally. The rest of the cases detailed in the nation are 15 Chinese nationals and one American who was on board the MS Westerdam journey transport.

Dzulkefly said Malaysia has ventured up its observation at its universal section focuses by expanding the quantity of warm scanners to recognize potential instances of seasonal influenza like infection that can prompt pneumonia. The nation has likewise put a brief travel prohibition on Chinese nationals landing from terrain territories under government lockdown, and banished the passage of the rest of the travelers on MS Westerdam.

The clergyman included that the nation isn’t yet at the phase of shutting schools, yet residents ought to watch individual cleanliness and wear a cover on the off chance that they have manifestations of respiratory contaminations.