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Further to Covid-19: Double confirm, S’pore not in East Asia, an interesting way of looking at things by the Economist’s HK correspondent. The failure to wear masks in countries where masks are de rigueur socially, indicates to those wearing masks that there are probably other hygiene failures by those who don’t wear... 

Following the online publication of my article “Has Case 152 rang (sic) the alarm bell on COVID-19 medical tourists coming to Singapore?” on 11 March 2020, I am delighted to see that some measures which are of a similar nature and/or purpose to those which I had suggested in that article, had subsequently been announced... 

The World Health Organization website reported 33,982 deaths out of 722,464 infected people, giving a mortality rate of 4.7%. On its own, the deaths of 33,982 is not alarming. Each year, 3 million people die from pneumonia caused by all kinds of germs. Most of the deaths from the corona virus are related to pneumonia. What the...