When the first report of COVID-19 appeared in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, the
world unknowingly perceived this as another flu-like illness. Many were surprised at the extreme
steps that China had subsequently taken to seal Wuhan from the rest of the world. However, by
February 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, had spread so quickly across the
globe that the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. COVID-19 is
not the first pandemic the world has seen, so what makes it so unique in Malaysia, is discussed to
avoid a future coronacoma.