March 27, 2020

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World Economic Forum gathers global panel of experts to answer questions on COVID-19

With so much conflicting information about the coronavirus pandemic on the internet, the World Economic Forum asked their Instagram followers to submit questions about the crisis. Experts from around the world — including Dean, Professor Teo Yik Ying, and Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Michelle Williams — answered questions like: Can you have COVID-19 and show no symptoms? Can one get coronavirus for a second time? How long can the virus survive on surfaces? Is it possible that one day this will happen again? Is thereRead more

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COVID-19: Abundance of caution should be the norm

Two new clusters were identified in the past week, with 20 cases related to a preschool in Fengshan. “Some may perceive that in this particular case, some teachers who were not well ought to have left the centre immediately, rather than carry on with their duties for a couple more hours,” noted Minister for Social and Family Development Desmond Lee. “But I hope that parents, the public and other colleagues recognise the realities on the ground and not in a two-dimensional way. … I think we should not jump to

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COVID-19: Prioritise workplace distancing over school closure

A combination of isolation and quarantine measures, workplace distancing and school closures was found to be the most effective in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in a simulated model of Singapore’s population. And at this early stage, quarantine and workplace distancing should be prioritised over school closures. This was presented in a paper titled ‘Interventions to mitigate early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore: a modelling study’ published in The Lancet on 23 March 2020. The study analysed different combinations of measures and their potential outcomes in a simulated model set

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