Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan have been hailed for using our experience with SARS to combat the current COVID-19. “Somewhat perversely, we can look at SARS as the dress rehearsal,” said Associate Professor Jeremy Lim, Co-Director, Leadership Institute for Global Health Transformation (LIGHT). “The experience was raw, and very, very visceral. And on the backRead more
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For a global take on the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum collected insights from academics within leading universities, including Dean, Professor Teo Yik Ying. “Individual responsibility sits at the heart of managing the current situation with COVID-19, as our actions determine whether the transmission chain is successfully halted or regrettably magnified,” said Prof Teo.
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In line with their responsibilities as signatories to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many low- and lower-middle income countries are working hard to provide better health and well-being for their people. As governments struggle to keep up with rising health expenditures, especially in resource-constrained settings, the need for evidence-informed decision-making for improved health provisioning is
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Among those infected with the virus, older adults with pre-existing heart conditions or hypertension face a sharply higher risk. In Singapore, nearly one in two confirmed coronavirus patients is aged 50 and above. Out of 178 patients as of 11 March, 41 of them are in their 50s, 30 are in their 60s and 10
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The School’s Public Health Translational Team (PHTT) collates the evidence base, reviews literature relevant to the outbreak, and produces the weekly COVID-19 Science Report. In addition to maintaining a knowledge base to support policymaking, the School also supports the Ministry of Health and other agencies in other ways, such as modelling the epidemiology of the
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“COVID-19 seems to have the best, or the worst, of both worlds. Because it spreads very efficiently, it doesn’t kill as many people; but the percentage it kills is far higher than the common flu,” said Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases). He was comparing COVID-19 to influenza for Mothership’s ‘Experts Explain’
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Dean, Professor Teo Yik Ying was invited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to give a seminar about Singapore’s approach to COVID-19. He shared the lessons that our country had learnt from the SARS outbreak in 2003, and presented the multi-prong measures put in place to deal with the current COVID-19
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On Monday, 9 March 2020, The Straits Times (ST) held a special edition of its Big Story panel discussion to focus on the COVID-19 outbreak and what lies ahead for Singapore. Moderated by ST senior health correspondent Ms Salma Khalik, the panel comprised four experts: Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, Director of Medical Services at the
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The World Health Organization wrote in a report: “China’s bold approach to contain the rapid spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic. These are the only measures that are currently proven to interrupt or minimise transmission chains in humans.” But WHO also stressed that there
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The coronavirus continues to spread in countries beyond China, including Britain, Italy, Iran, South Korea and the United States. Despite raising the risk assessment to ‘very high at a global level’, the World Health Organization has expressed that containment of COVID-19 is still feasible and it does not yet constitute a pandemic. “I think they’re
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