Living normally, with Covid-19 – The Straits Times

June 24, 2021

With vaccination, testing, treatment and social responsibility, in the near future, when someone gets Covid-19, our response can be very different from now. We are drawing up a road map to transit to this new normal.

The Straits Times

by Gan Kim Yong, Lawrence Wong and Ong Ye Kung

24 June 2021

We are continuing with our efforts to control the worrisome Delta variant of Covid-19. Given its high transmissibility, it will be hard to bring infections down to zero. Instead, we are adopting an aggressive ring-fencing strategy – casting a wide net to isolate contacts of infected persons, and testing tens of thousands every day. The aim is to minimise the risk of large clusters forming.

But it has been 18 months since the pandemic started, and our people are battle-weary. All are asking: When and how will the pandemic end?

Read more here: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/living-normally-with-covid-19

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