EARLY Sunday morning, I received a forwarded voice message on WhatsApp, cautioning people to separate their mail for at least 24 hours.
“There has been a report of a postman positive for Covid-19 (...) spitting on letters, ” said Datuk Dr Christopher Lee, an infectious disease specialist and member of the Selangor Covid-19 task force, in the voice recording.
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
