With new norms, there’s no let-up even for frontliners

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Dr Leong Chee Loon (right) has been at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 as HKL head of infectious diseases.PETALING JAYA: When Dr Leong Chee Loon first heard of the Covid-19 pandemic, he was immediately reminded of the SARS outbreak in 2003 that killed 774 people worldwide. At that time, he had only been a year with Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), but he learned a lot from his “sifu” at the time, former health deputy director-general Dr Christopher Lee. Now, 18 years later, Leong found himself in a similar situation as HKL head of infectious diseases when the Covid-19 virus first hit Malaysian shores. “I actually just continued what Lee did in 2003. In that time, he had set up isolation rooms and negative pressure rooms to combat SARS, so I have the opportunity to manage the same rooms now,” he told FMT. “After SARS we had H5N1, H1N1, MERS so there were a few infectious di…