https://www.scmp.com/rss/508436/feed Hallam Stevens is an associate professor of history at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He writes about the history of technology and the life sciences, and is the author of Life out of Sequence: A Data-driven History of Bioinformatics (2013) and Biotechnology and Society: an introduction (2016). en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to tear through communities in the United States and Europe, Singapore appears, by contrast, a veritable utopia. The large-scale outbreak among migrant workers that shocked the city is now definitively under control. Almost all of the island nation’s new cases are imported from overseas. And, most remarkably, the total number of Covid-19-related deaths remains under 30. This success can be attributed to several factors: a well-coordinated government response;... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3115863/does-take-singapores-tracetogether-really-show-increased-trust?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3115863/does-take-singapores-tracetogether-really-show-increased-trust?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:14 +0000