KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 10 -- Healthcare workers at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah are struggling to cope with their workload after over half the nurses in the department were forced to self-quarantine.

Malaysiakini reported that 40 of the 66 nurses manning the ICU wards were quarantined after one of their colleagues tested positive for Covid-19.

Citing sources from the hospital, the report said that the staff member was believed to have contracted infection from the community before going to work.

The report said that this caused the remaining workers of the ICU wards to become overloaded.

This is especially when the hospital is tasked with handling all non-Covid-19 ICU patients from Q...