Kuala Lampur, March 23 -- On March 16, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced a two-week Movement control order (MCO) to cope with the escalating Covid-19 pandemic. Once the live-streaming on Facebook finished, I scrolled down to the "comments" section, and found some netizen's responses which grabbed my attention. "I can't understand what PM said!" "Can PM use English instead? "Similar sentiments were echoed by others and resonated with many "likes".

On the fourth day of MCO, two video clips went viral online on Facebook and was widely shared. The first one is from Husna Liang, a girl from China, who shared two important messages, which consisted of the proper way of using a face mask and of washing hand, by conducting it in Bahasa M...