My hubby is a Covid-19 frontliner: 'I can’t kiss him when he comes home'


Dr Chuon (not in this photo) washes her husband's work clothes separately after soaking them with sodium bicarbonate first. — Filepic

Lifestyle medicine physician Dr Yvonne Chuon may not be dealing directly with Covid-19 patients, but she is well aware of the risks frontliners take.

Her husband is an orthopaedic surgeon who mainly does trauma and joint reconstruction surgery at Hospital Sungai Buloh in Selangor.

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