KUALA LUMPUR - Singapore and Malaysia will set up a a joint working group to strengthen cooperation in tackling the spread of the coronavirus.
The ministers had agreed that it is important for both countries to continue working closely together on the outbreak, especially given the high volume of travel between Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore's Ministry of Health said in a statement. Separately Dr Dzulkefly said at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur:"... We share the same causeway, there are hundreds of people travelling across each day for reasons of family, business and leisure, so all the more why we should strengthen and enhance our cooperation managing this coronavirus outbreak."
Malaysia's first coronavirus patients were China tourists who had entered the country via Johor Baru from Singapore while Malaysia's first local patient had attended a conference in Singapore.
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