(1) Clearing the Covid-19 disease from worker dormitories remains the biggest challenge. ‘The testing in dorms is now in the “final stretch”, with 232,000 cases confirmed as recovered or virus-free as of July 16.’
(2) Singapore’s second challenge comes from imported cases, although the city state has limited this risk by shutting its borders.
(3) Singapore also faces the risk of a resurgence in infections triggered by a failure to comply with safe-distancing rules, which remain in place despite the lockdown being lifted.
(4) The fourth challenge is the simultaneous onset of dengue fever in Singapore, which has seen some 19,000 cases so far this year.
Read here (South China Morning Post, July 22, 2020)
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