It was a tale of two standards for 44-year-old Lee Kwei Cheong who is stuck in quarantine and is appealing to see his critically-ill wife, amid a national controversy where a minister skipped quarantine and even turned up in Parliament.

"The doctor found that the virus in my wife's blood had spread to her heart, lungs and now the brain," Lee spoke from his quarantine centre in a video call organised by Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng at his Kuala Lumpur office today...