Malaysian king, queen test positive for coronavirus

Malaysian Supreme Ruler Abdullah Al Mustafa and his wife, Tunku Azizah, have tested positive for coronavirus.

Report informs citing TASS that the representative of the royal court, Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin, said that both have mild symptoms of the disease.

The royal couple is in quarantine.

According to the Malaysian Ministry of Health, doctors have identified 17,000 new cases of infection over the past day, taking the total tally to over 4.2 million people countrywide. Malaysia's total coronavirus-related deaths reached 35,000 people after 30 patients succumbed to the pathogen over one day.