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Government workers wearing protective suits carry a mock-up of a coffin of a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) victim as others carry signs displaying information about the number of Covid-19 cases on a main road to warn people about the dangers of the disease as the outbreak continues in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 28, 2020/ Reuters
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Mutated coronavirus strain found in Indonesia as cases jump

The strain, which the World Health Organization said was identified in February and has been circulating in Europe and the Americas, has also been found in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia

A woman wearing protective mask and gloves, uses her phone in a Mass Rapid Transit train, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 22, 2020/ Reuters
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Malaysian scientists discover '10 times more infectious' coronavirus strain