SINGAPORE – Singapore’s city-state pledged to take steps to involve the spread of coronavirus, a senior government official said Wednesday.
“We don’t think we can’t get to any covid case, however, we need to have a scenario where we can, if a Covid case is maintained, be able to involve him,” Chief Minister Teo Chee Hean told CNBC. , Martin Soong at a Credit Suisse event.
Earlier this year, Singapore adopted a style for its effective control of the spread of the virus, but this good fortune threatened after an epidemic among foreign migrant personnel living in dormitories, mainly from India and Bangladesh.
“We controlled to get him well involved in the first two months, however, he almost eluded us in April and May. And the first week of April, we had a double-digit decrease. Array. For the third week of May, we had four-digit numbers of more than 1,000 a day. And that’s how fast it moves, ” said Teo.
In April, Singapore entered a partial blockade that the government described as a “decisive factor. “The slow relaxation of restrictions began in May.
Today, the stage has been largely controlled: on Wednesday, there were only seven new bedroom-like instances, according to Singapore’s Ministry of Health.
“For the bedrooms, it took us a while to master it, because we’re looking to do several things. We try to make sure that we intelligently care for the staff: they are there, they are working, they are there to make a fair life and it is our duty to take care of them, so we make sure to take care of their wages, their food, their health, and that is reflected in the incredibly low mortality rates. And it’s not a coincidence, it’s anything we seek to do deliberately, ” said Teo.
All migrant personnel were tested and returned to work, but they still have to go through the regime tests.
“Everyone, whether a migrant worker, if they are Singaporeans, if combined in this workplace, has to be tested once every 14 days. And that’s where we get some of those cases now, because we’re kind of getting each and every one back to a filtration system, to make sure we leave each and every element blank,” Teo said.
Due to the infectious nature of the virus, strong safeguarding and containment measures are needed to avoid widespread events, which “once they become uncontrollable, it is very difficult to control it again,” Teo said.
“This involves early detection, containment, isolation, and ensuring that you can control the situation,” he said.
So it’s not that if we go back to where we were before, if we go back to where we were before, without security measures, we’ll get back in trouble, because the virus will behave in exactly the same way. . . . It’s a very, very fast virus, it will locate all the nooks and crannies and all the slits and surprise you in a way you hadn’t imagined before,” he says.
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