CORONAVIRUS | Covid-19 is so highly transmissible that patients of the virus are not allowed any visitors throughout their treatment, not even their closest family members.

It is no different for the Covid-19 patients under the care of intensive care doctors, who are known as intensivists, in the country's intensive care units (ICU).

But Dr Shanti Rudra Deva, a senior intensivist at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), said communicating with families of patients admitted to the ICU has always been an integral part of the care for the critically ill...