KUALA LUMPUR: A news report claiming that a 23-year-old Indian national had died in Malaysia from the 2019 novel coronavirus is false.

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

“Based on information received up to 6pm today (Jan 30), the 23-year-old Indian national as mentioned in the news report is not in the list of notifications and positive cases reported to MOH,” the ministry posting said.