The embassy suggested Vietnamesecitizens avoid travelling to crowded areas and take precautionary measures asinstructed. They were advised to avoid attending conferences, seminars andactivities with the participation of large number of people if sufferingillness or problems in the respiratory system.
If participating in conferences,seminars, events with crowds, they need to wear face masks and properly usehand sanitisers.
They were also required to avoidcontacts with those having respiratory illness.
The embassy called on Vietnamesecitizens in Malaysia to regularly check and follow instructions of the hostauthorities, as well as not to popularise unverified information on socialmedia.
In case they show COVID-19infection symptoms like fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, trouble inbreathing, sneezing, they should go to designated medical establishments fortimely check-ups and treatment.
For further assistance, theycould call the embassy’s citizen protection hotline ( 60)1136682866.
As of March 4, Malaysia hadreported 50 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection cases./.