Activate! – frontliner recalls pandemic's first cases

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"We have our first gp (sic) of patients. Activate".That was the sentence that appeared on the screen of Dr Yasmin Mohd Ghani's (above) smartphone in the wee hours of Jan 25, 2020.It was the first day of the Chinese New Year celebration, but there would be no holiday for the infectious disease consultant and her team at the Sungai Buloh Hospital.Indeed, the night before, Yasmin and her teammates had burnt the midnight oil to brainstorm a "master plan" to prepare Sungai Buloh Hospital for the Covid-19 pandemic.The virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was new to the world then, with the first case detected barely three months prior (Nov 2019) in Wuhan, China and a fair amount of mystery and secrecy shrouded its evolution in that city.When the text came, it meant just one thing – Covid-19 had arrived in Malaysia.On Jan 25, 2020, Malaysia recorded three positive Covid-…