KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 -- As medical frontliners continue fighting Covid-19, the son of a doctor took to Twitter to appeal to Malaysians to adhere to the Movement Control Order.

Mahfuz Shaharudin said that his father was one of the Covid-19 patients admitted at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) now.

"When everyone cannot sit still and spread the virus everywhere, the Health Ministry will never have enough manpower to treat the current patients."

"So please everyone, please respect the Movement Control Order imposed by the government," he tweeted on March 18.

Speaking to Malay portal mStar, the 30-year-old said his father, who is a doctor, was informed by the district health department on March 4 to go for check up after a patient he treat...