No discos?
Posted on 03/25/2020 4:57:41 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
SINGAPORE: Singapore will close bars and entertainment venues including discos and cinemas among new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
The regulations - including limits on gatherings outside work and school to 10 persons or fewer - will take effect from 11:59 p.m. local time on March 26, and will be in place at least until April 30, the ministry added.
Singapore confirmed 49 new cases of the infection on Tuesday, taking its tally to 558. The country reported its first two fatalities from the virus on Saturday.
Singapore will allow malls, museums and restaurants to stay open - but with additional precautions such as reduced operating capacity
Meanwhile a key modeling study from Singapore has found that putting multiple social lockdowns in place - including school closures - will have the biggest impact on curbing COVID-19, the pandemic disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Quarantining infected people and their family members, closing schools, and imposing workplace distancing and homeworking can all limit the spread, the study found, but a combination of all three is most effective in reducing cases.
The global number of confirmed cases passed 377,000 across 194 countries and territories as of 0200 GMT on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with more than 16,500 reported deaths.
Singapore, which according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) data had reported 455 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two deaths as of March 22, has imposed some social distancing recommendations but has not closed its schools.
Elsewhere, millions of children have seen their schools closed in the United States, across much of Europe and in many other countries as governments have imposed strict social lockdown measures to stop people meeting and mingling in groups.
Published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal
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Tokyo is likely next.
That’s gonna put a damper on Orchard Towers.
No discos?
Wait, what?
I thought Singapore had already successfully handled their outbreak?
griffin wrote: Wait, what? I thought Singapore had already successfully handled their outbreak?
So did I and really urged this approach and seemed to be supported until this development. But even now according to this account its not as all encompassing by shutting everything down as what we’re doing here.
post #7 from an earlier posting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3825925/posts#15
edited, My sister in law lives in Singapore. This is for real. They have people assigned at entrances with hand held infra-red heat guns. She said she was scanned 5 times just today. Anyone who displays a high body temp are isolated and asked who they have been with? How long they felt like this? If they ever coughed in public ?.
Article doesn’t go into what kind problems came up on a very promising method. Was it the follow up that was being done on those found with high body temp? But for this system to work requires a good amount of trained personnel and medical followup that should include treatment beyond testing. Knowing whatever the problems were that came up to cause the change would be very helpful
[Article doesn’t go into what kind problems came up on a very promising method. Was it the follow up that was being done on those found with high body temp? But for this system to work requires a good amount of trained personnel and medical followup that should include treatment beyond testing. Knowing whatever the problems were that came up to cause the change would be very helpful]
post #7 from an earlier posting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3825925/posts#15
edited, My sister in law lives in Singapore. This is for real. They have people assigned at entrances with hand held infra-red heat guns. She said she was scanned 5 times just today. Anyone who displays a high body temp are isolated and asked who they have been with? How long they felt like this? If they ever coughed in public ?.
Article doesn’t go into what kind problems came up on a very promising method. Was it the follow up that was being done on those found with high body temp? But for this system to work requires a good amount of trained personnel and medical followup that should include treatment beyond testing. Knowing whatever the problems were that came up to cause the change would be very helpful
“Orchard Towers”
Had to look it up. As the German helmet dude on Laugh-in used to say, Verrry interesting.
There are a lot of interesting quirks in Singapore:
1) Most chewing gum is illegal to be sold.
2) You can be fined for public spitting.
3) Not flushing a public toilet can get a fine.
All in all though, it’s a very clean country, very safe, and pretty easy to navigate around since it is such a melting pot.
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