PETALING JAYA: When Anthony Kong developed flu symptoms which persisted after a week home from the United States, he immediately checked himself into hospital.

For him, it is the responsibility of every citizen to keep the country safe.

"I called the Sungai Buloh Hospital on May 16 for advice and was told to go over on Monday morning but since I'd planned to go to Muar the next day, I decided to go to the hospital there," said Kong, 42, who was on a business trip in the United States from April 24 to May 9.

On Monday, he called the Muar Hospital at 9.30am and told them about his prolonged flu but was told to stay home because they were not prepared for such a case, he said.

"Later, at about 2.30pm, they called me to say I could go to the hospital," he said, adding that he drove to the hospital with his wife Serene, 43. Both wore masks.

"The staff at the hospital wore suits like men on the moon and recorded my particulars - where I went in the US and when I returned," he said.

Kong said he waited for three-and-a-half hours for the hospital to contact the Johor Baru Hospital and discuss what to do with him and was told to be admitted to the JB Hospital isolation ward.

Three "suited" men went with him in the ambulance to the hospital.

At the isolation ward, one doctor and five nurses, also in special suits, took turns to care for him, and food was sent in by nurses, all wearing the protective suit.