[VIDEOS] Frontliners Win Hearts Online For Helping Elderly Get To Testing Booths

The health authorities were captured on videos assisting a group of old men and women who were walking to a COVID-19 screening station in Pudu Market, Kuala Lumpur.

The videos, posted by netizen Franke Yap on Tuesday, have since gone viral on Facebook, garnering over 1,600 shares at the time of writing and winning the hearts of netizens.

In the first video, a voice can be heard saying that everyone working and living around Pudu Market was ordered by health authorities to undergo COVID-19 screening.

The 32-second long video shows an elderly man with a hunchback walking slowly in line.

In another one-minute long video, it shows three officers in full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) holding the hands of the elderly as they walk towards the screening station.

The photo was taken by Radzi Razak from Malay Mail. The report noted that the elderly woman was too weak to walk, hence, the health officer gave her a piggyback ride from her house in front of the wet market to the screening area about 60 metres away.

It was reported that the operation had screened over 500 foreign workers at the wet market, which was allowed to open under the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO).

A health officer told the news portal that it was a precautionary COVID-19 screening to ensure the wet market is a safe zone. He added that the area will be closed down if there are more than 10 positive cases.

The health officers conducting the screening were from Selayang Hospital and Cheras health district.

"Very caring frontliners holding the elderly," commented a netizen.

"Thank you for your hard work, frontliners," added another person.

"Thanks, #TeamTakBalikRaya, for taking care of the elderly," wrote one Facebook user.