page_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia
section_title: February 2020
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia / February 2020
caption_attribution_description: English: Temporary Travel Restrictions into Malaysia, particularly in the states of Sabah and Sarawak as released by Malaysia Airlines.
context_page_description: The first detected cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia were found in January 2020, from foreign nationals entering the country. In February the first local Malaysian case was identified. A Tablighi Jamaat event held at the Masjid Jamek Sri Petaling in Kuala Lumpur, which began in late February, was linked to a significant spike in cases both in Malaysia and abroad. At one point, almost two-third of cases in the country were linked to this event. A "Movement Control Order" was announced on 16 March, and the next day the first deaths in the country were reported. The number of active cases peaked in April, and has been slowly declining since then.
context_section_description: On 4 February, Malaysia announced two new cases, including a 41-year-old local male, which was the first case involving a Malaysian. The case patient had a recent trip to Singapore and is quarantined in Sungai Buloh Hospital. The other case involved a 63-year-old male from China. On the same day, the child quarantined at the Sultanah Maliha Hospital had made a full recovery, was discharged, and allowed to return to China. On 5 February, two of 107 Malaysians and non-Malaysian family relatives brought back from Wuhan by the Malaysian government tested positive and were quarantined at Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital in Seremban of Negeri Sembilan. They were a 45-year-old man and his nine-year-old son, both Malaysians, bringing the total to 12. The younger sister of the 41-year-old Malaysian reported positive of the virus on 4 February, a 40-year-old Malaysian had also been confirmed infected with the virus on 6 February, making her the first patient who acquired the virus through local transmission in Malaysia, and warded at Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Setar. A positive case involving a 32-year-old woman from Wuhan was reported on the same day. The woman came to Malaysia on 25 January and referred to Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Another woman from Wuhan was confirmed positive of the virus on the next day, and was quarantined in Hospital Permai with her husband, who was asymptomatic. The 59-year-old woman came from Malaysia from Singapore on 21 January with three of her relatives.
  On 8 February, Malaysia reported another case involving a Wuhan tourist. The case patient is a 67-year-old woman who had indirect relations with another case patient reported positive on 6 February and quarantined at Kuala Lumpur Hospital. On the same day, Malaysia reported that its fourth case patient, who was warded at Permai Hospital had acquired a full recovery. A total of 11 new patients were also admitted to hospitals within the day for investigation of suspected infection in the state of Sarawak after they were reported to show symptoms; they comprised nine in Sibu Hospital, one in Miri Hospital and one in Sarawak General Hospital of Kuching. A hotline was subsequently set up by the Sarawak state government on the virus outbreak. On 9 February, the mother-in-law of the ninth case, a 65-year-old local became the 17th reported case. Meanwhile, Malaysia reported its third full recovery involving its tenth case patient on the same day. On 10 February, Malaysia reported its 18th case, a 31-year-old local who worked in Macau until 1 February. The same day, the Sarawak Disaster Management Committee began to impose a prohibition to neighbouring Singaporeans due to the major increase of positive cases in the neighbouring country.
  On 13 February, Malaysia reported its 19th case, which is a 39-year-old woman from Wuhan and daughter of the 16th case patient, warded at Kuala Lumpur Hospital. On 15 February, Malaysia reported two more cases, which are a 27-year-old businessman from Guangzhou and a 32-year-old woman who is from China but resides in Malaysia. The man is warded at Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital. A 22nd case subsequently reported within the same day involving an elderly woman from the United States who was among hundreds of passengers who disembarked from the MS Westerdam cruise ship in Cambodia and flew to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The woman is warded at the Sungai Buloh Hospital of Selangor. Meanwhile, the remaining 143 passengers including a further six passengers from the same flight with the woman had been declared free from the virus and allowed to return into their respective countries.
  The Holland America Line and Cambodian health ministry requested Malaysia to re-test the US citizen to ensure the accuracy of its findings. This second check-up conducted by the Malaysian health ministry on the woman turned out positive for the virus. Following this second test confirmation, the Malaysian authorities announced the remaining passengers of the cruise ships would not be allowed to enter the country despite several flights being chartered by Holland Am
caption: Temporary travel restrictions into Malaysia on 13 February 2020, particularly to the states of Sabah and Sarawak as released by Malaysia Airlines.
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