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SINGAPORE – The coronavirus will remain a problem for a long time yet, and Singaporeans will have to learn to live with it for the long term, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday (June 7).
This means getting used to new arrangements in the way people work, play and lead their everyday lives, he said.
“It will take at least a year, probably longer, before vaccines become widely available,” said Mr Lee in the first of six national broadcasts on Singapore’s future after the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We will have to learn to live with Covid-19 for the long term, as we have done in the past with other dangerous infectious diseases, like tuberculosis.”
In his speech, the Prime Minister sketched out Singapore’s progress in tackling the pandemic so far.
New cases in the wider community have come down and the situation in migrant worker dormitories has stabilised, he said.
The healthcare system is coping well, and Singapore’s coronavirus fatality rate – at 0.6 per cent – is one of the world’s lowest.
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