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SINGAPORE – As a scientist who studies infectious diseases, Professor Wang Linfa knows all too well the importance of social distancing and personal hygiene to not becoming sick during a pandemic.
In fact, the director of the emerging infectious diseases programme at Duke-NUS Medical School has been practising such measures long before the Government started issuing recommendations for people to keep their distance from others, so as to reduce the chances of more people being infected with the virus causing Covid-19.
For example, after visiting Wuhan, China – the first epicentre of the current outbreak – as part of a team of scientists learning more about the virus in mid-January, Prof Wang put himself on home quarantine, even though there was no requirement for him to do so then.
He was a member of the Emergency Committee convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that debated the WHO’s stance on the coronavirus during the early stages of the outbreak.
Even now, he is also trying to put into practice new habits – such as avoiding contact with people, even family members, and reducing time spent outside his home or laboratory.
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