TAWAU: Sabah's first Covid-19 case here died on Friday, Daily Express has been able to confirm.

His wife posted the news of his passing at 6.48pm in a Tawau Muslim women’s group on WhatsApp, which Daily Express sighted.

The 58-year-old man was a tabligh member who attended a recent Kuala Lumpur mosque gathering reported to be the latest transmission cluster of the disease.