"The ED (Emergency Department) used to be a sea of body bags and patient beds, with canvas sheets lining the floor – you could see them at every nook and corner. But now you can see the floor.”

This was the vivid picture painted by Dr Hana Hadzrami, an anaesthesiologist at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital, in a Facebook post today. It is grim, but it also spoke of hope.

“The number of referrals from the ED to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)...