Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined his government’s false first steps in the face of the coronavirus pandemic this year in a speech Wednesday, with the precaution of loosening containment efforts too soon.
“In retrospect, we would have actually done a few things differently,” Lee said in his first parliamentary address in the primaries since his re-election in July. “I would have liked to have known before that other people with Covid-19 were contagious even when they were asymptomatic, and Singapore deserves to have quarantined all citizens returning from before, rather than those from some countries in the first place.
Lee cited other things as measures Singapore has taken given what it now knows about the disease: Singapore would have examined all returning citizens before releasing them from the 1940s, even if they had no symptoms, rather than assuming that having no symptoms means no infection; The country would also have advised everyone to wear a mask before him; Singapore would also have acted more aggressively and previously opposed the dormitories of migrant workers; as the government intensified its idea that it was appropriate, larger groups erupted in dormitories that threatened to overwhelm us.
“At that time, we took the most productive clinical recommendation available,” Lee said. “This is all one last wonder. We want to be informed of those mistakes and do better next time. But in the fog of war, it is not in every time imaginable to make the right decisions.
Singapore, which has been praised around the world for its efforts to engage the early epidemic, suffered a major setback when infections spread within its network of migrant staff housed in nearby neighborhoods. mandatory mask, imposed a two-month partial lockdown and now has one of the highest screening rates in Southeast Asia. The number of instances in the city-state’s largest network remains small and has decreased, while the number of deaths is low.
Singapore has developed touch search and verification functions and can perform around 20,000 laboratory controls a day today, Lee said. With organization controls, you can check this number of other people multiple times, you added.
Singapore has also more than doubled its extensive attention span and established remote and transitory network care centers for patients with symptoms, creating more beds than all of its combined acute hospitals, he said.
Lee also cautioned against the strategy of allowing the virus to spread through the population to obtain collective immunity, and called for vigilance amid calls for other social estating measures as others tire of prolonged periods.
“The Covid-19 virus remains as infectious and resilient as it used to be,” Lee said. “If we take those measures now because the numbers are down, we’ll see a resurgence. “
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