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SINGAPORE – Singapore needs to prepare to live with Covid-19 for a long time, and brace itself for significantly more new cases here as the number of those infected outside China continues to grow at “alarming rates”, warned Health Minister Gan Kim Yong on Thursday (March 5).
“This is worrying, as they pose a high risk of importation of cases into Singapore,” he said. “Even among our closest neighbours, the situation is also evolving. Therefore, it is likely that this disease will stay with us for a long time.”
The nation will have to continuously adjust what it is doing to deal with the evolving situation so life can go on while appropriate precautions are put in place, he told Parliament.
As more countries face infections, it will become increasingly difficult to stop the virus at the borders, “as we cannot ban visitors from every country and shut ourselves out from the world”, he said.
Singapore now has travel restrictions and advisories, temperature screening, contact tracing and quarantine.
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