SINGAPORE- It has been more than a year and a half since Ms Nan Phoo Thandar Aung has hugged or kissed her 11-year-old daughter.
A senior staff nurse at the Yishun Community Hospital, Ms Nan used to fly back home to Myanmar twice a year. But since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, she had to accept that the only way to see her child would be to video call and virtually accompany her on her daily activities.
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