Activate! – frontliner recalls pandemic's first cases

"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...