https://www.scmp.com/rss/505337/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Singapore’s response to the coronavirus has been held up by many around the world as a model. As of this week, the country has had 558 cases and two deaths, and its infection rate is much slower than the rest of the world. The first thing that helped with its response was it was ready before the outbreak even occurred because of the Sars outbreak of 2002-03. It was aware then that its infrastructure wasn’t ready for an outbreak of this kind. So, in the years since, isolation hospitals were... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3076885/why-singapores-coronavirus-response-worked-and-what-we-can-all?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3076885/why-singapores-coronavirus-response-worked-and-what-we-can-all?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:42:25 +0000