Nearly one lakh Malaysians could lose their jobs if China’s novel coronavirus (officially known as Covid-19) outbreak remains up to the end of the year 2020.
Several local newspapers on February 19 published reports quoting Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan as saying.
But the country’s Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Mahfuz Omar stated subsequently that the figure of job loss was just an estimation.