KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5): A journalist pleaded not guilty at the Magistrate’s Court here to three charges of making statements on Facebook regarding the 2019 novel coronavirus which are likely to cause fear or alarm to the public.

Wan Noor Hayati Wan Alias, 41, entered the plea after the charges were read to her by an interpreter before Magistrate Tawfiq Affandy Chin.