TJANDRA Yoga Aditama has just completed his tenure as World Health Organization (WHO) Southeast Asia’s director for communicable diseases on October 1, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Two weeks earlier, he had returned home from New Delhi, India, where he was based for the past five years. He was forced to take a repatriation flight as the Indian government’s ban on commercial flights in and out of the Indira Gandhi Internatio