The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic, cultural, and social dimensions. Avenues of direct contact have been barred, with digital and mediated touch dominating various spheres. The lived experience of a population negotiating with the loss of tactile contact finds expression within the subjective narratives of the viral subject detailed insightfully through the medium of comics. Taking instances from graphic medicine, this paper aims to analyse the parameters of touch and tactility during the COVID-19 pandemic by close reading comic panels from various sources.

COVID-19大流行暴露了人体的脆弱性。近年来，生物脆弱性和对传染的恐惧促使人们通过在环境、自我和他人之间划定明确的界限来保持谨慎。因此，尽管触觉在功能、发展、触觉、亲密、非语言、治疗、文化和社会方面很重要，但它却受到限制。直接接触的途径已被禁止，数字和媒介接触主导了各个领域。人们在失去触觉接触的情况下进行谈判的生活经历在病毒主题的主观叙述中得到了表达，这些叙述通过漫画媒介进行了深入细致的描述。以图形医学为例，