A Healers’ Triathlon
The Covid-19 pandemic, at first predicted to last only a few months, has not yet come to an end. Doctors are working together to treat patients infected with the new virus, fully aware that they are vulnerable to infection and even death, like hundreds of their colleagues. As of December 24, as many as 224 doctors and 15 dentists had died from Covid-19. While no specific cure is yet available, doctors continue to fight although they could have chosen to leave the battlefield.
Tempo
December 27, 2020
INDRA Yovi, a pulmonologist in the Riau Province, received the urgent news on his cell phone in early February. Singapore, located across the sea from Riau, had declared its region an orange zone because of Covid-19. Singapore considered that the spread of the disease had become serious, with great impact on public health. On January 23, the first person in Singapore was found positive for the virus. “I immediately asked to meet the governo
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