Why Singapore’s admired coronavirus-fighting playbook cannot be easily copied in other countries by geddiejdk RDchatters
SINGAPORE - A day after Jeanhee Kim learned of a coronavirus case in her Singapore apartment block, she was visited by a distinguished-looking man she later learned was a senior government minister.
Her experience exemplifies the fastidious approach taken to combat the outbreak in the city-state - which has included using police investigators and security cameras to help track and quarantine more than 2,500 people, and won international praise. “If Singapore can’t contain it, I don’t see any country that can,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota.The densely packed island of 5.7 million has 84 coronavirus cases, the highest number outside mainland China, if the hundreds of infections on a cruise ship docked near Tokyo are excluded from Japan’s count.
When the first cases of infected Chinese visitors to Singapore surfaced in late January, a 140-strong team of government contact tracers set to work interviewing patients and identifying and quarantining those close to them. It is an offence for individuals to withhold or provide inaccurate information to a contact tracing officer. Moreover, people who breach quarantine orders can be fined up to S$10,000 , jailed for up to six months, or both.
The country was one of the first to ban Chinese travelers earlier this month, a move that came at significant economic cost to the global transit hub, which counts China as its largest trade partner and biggest source of tourists.But Singapore has deep pockets.
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