All passengers wear face masks while on a coach at the Giáp Bát Coach Station.

At the Giáp Bát coach station, the station management board issued announcements on loudspeakers to remind passengers, drivers, assistants and all workers to wear face masks.

Nguyễn Tất Thành, director of the coach station, said that the management board was handing out free face masks for passengers, and also placing antiseptic hand wash at different gates at the station.

The distribution of face masks was conducted with support from different organisations such as the police and the Red Cross Society.

Lý Trường Sơn, director of the Mỹ Đình coach station management board, said that the board has provided drivers and assistants information about measures of epidemic prevention.

Trần Hoàng, head of the Planning, Investment and Technology Division under the Hà Nội Coach Station Management Company, said that all workers had received training about prevention measures.

If they discovered any passengers with high temperature and coughing, they would immediately call medical units. — VNS

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