Preparations to stockpile equipment , detect and monitor cases , and treat COVID-19 patients were reported to have been initiated in Malaysia as early as 6 January 2020 during the pandemic .
Preparations to stockpile equipment , monitor cases and treat COVID-19 patients were reported to have been initiated as early as 6 January 2020 , following a World Health Organization ( WHO ) report on a late-December 2019 outbreak of `` pneumonia of unknown cause '' in Wuhan City , Hubei .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Malaysia