News & Reviews: Coronavirus
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Jan 31, 2020
With something as serious as the coronavirus happening, it's important to know what news is legit or fake. Just two days ago, our own Ministry of Health sent out a list of the fake news that's been going around. In the same way, Facebook is taking steps to limit the spreading of false information.
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Jan 30, 2020
The Wuhan coronavirus has now spreading across countries and causing panic that has killed 130 people and infecting more than 6000 Chinese citizens. Google has now temporarily closed all its offices in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Jan 29, 2020
The coronavirus has sure made a lot of people worried about their safety. When we start to hear news about people fainting and being quarantined, news tends to spread virally and thanks to the Internet, it's hard to pinpoint which one is real or fake news. It even got us wearing face masks in airports where there is no official suspected case yet.
That said, your friends and family (especially relatives) would often forward chain messages about the latest coronavirus cases in Malaysia. If you're annoyed about that (which we are too), we managed to get a heads-up about which one is #fakenews thanks to official Ministry of Health, Malaysia on its Twitter post.
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Jan 29, 2020
Apple has closed one retail store in mainland China and reduced operating hours for other retail locations yesterday due to the coronavirus outbreak. Besides, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook also mentioned that the company also began to limit employees traveling to China last week.
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