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Of course don’t expect the PAP to disclose how many negative pressure rooms in public hospitals. They are unable to admit more than 2000 cases at any one time. PAP was planning for a repeat of SARS. With only 238 SARS cases in 2003, PAP would never have imagined being faced with more than 4200 – and increasing – Covid-19... 

Playing catch-up is the name of the game for Singapore in the COVID-19 pandemic. We seem to be always a step behind — be it safe distancing and border closures or imposing of lockdown and wearing of face masks. Many countries have indicated they are easing their lockdown measures from next week, including New Zealand, where... 

Tackling the surge of infected Covid-19 cases among our foreign workers staying in dormitories is clearly an important and urgent task that the government must tackle and it is tackling. Another equally important and urgent task is to effectively control community spread and it is also working at. How well are they doing? The...