Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

[phtthp]

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"1967619\" time=\"1584545764\" user_id=\"14025:

I worry if our hospitals can cope despite reports said G is prep to expand etc.

Beds and facilities can increase, medical professionals can't increase overnight.

Big countries hv deep pockets to cushion the economy impacts, how long can our little red dot sustain?

SL, good point raised !

[MrsKiasu]

list out already or not? big portion imported

[phtthp]

lee_yl\" post_id=\"1967617\" time=\"1584544791\" user_id=\"17023:

2).

How many new cases per day must we have before MOH will give up on contract tracing?

More and more cases not as detailed as previously, seems like the contact trackers are starting to get burnt out?

https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/sg.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/covid-19-spore-confirms-new-singleday-high-of-47-cases-including-33-imported-total-313-131621367.html

[sky minecrafter]

@MKS. Out an hour ago:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/coronavirus-47-new-cases-moh-details-imported-travel-12553034?cid=FBcna&fbclid=IwAR1CvYXNe_iGwA4uhgJcIJZkJ6qUvG96xOE9Tpr7kSr7bgv2SQugfgMw0QY

Our Sec school teacher just (30min ago) sent a notification suspending all CCAs till April

[MrsKiasu]

sky minecrafter\" post_id=\"1967628\" time=\"1584550463\" user_id=\"130531:[quote=\"sky minecrafter\" post_id=1967628 time=1584550463 user_id=130531]
@MKS. Out an hour ago:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/coronavirus-47-new-cases-moh-details-imported-travel-12553034?cid=FBcna&fbclid=IwAR1CvYXNe_iGwA4uhgJcIJZkJ6qUvG96xOE9Tpr7kSr7bgv2SQugfgMw0QY

Our Sec school teacher just (30min ago) sent a notification suspending all CCAs till April[/quote]

good good sky, better than nothing..and thanks for the link..and read earlier something like they trying to delay the peak..

[sharonkhoo]

phtthp\" post_id=\"1967610\" time=\"1584539218\" user_id=\"35251:

1) Indonesia announced that she will close her door to foreign arrival for 1 month, starting with effect from
this Friday 20 March 2020, time 00 West Indonesian time

In case this frightens people like it did me, the ban applies to a list of countries, i.e. those which have high rates of transmission. Others need to get visas. I have a non-Indon friend in Singapore for a few days who has left his family in Indon, and the above gave me a shock!
Details:
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/03/17/covid-19-indonesia-suspends-visa-free-policy-expands-ban-for-people-from-worst-hit-countries.html

[doodbug]

School closures by themselves - would it be useful?

Probably need to couple with stay at home advisories - otherwise large groups of kids, instead of being in school where some social distancing can be enforced - they are milling around in fast food outlets or malls or public libraries etc - i don’t think it will help much in containing spread.

[Estéema]

doodbug\" post_id=\"1967639\" time=\"1584580265\" user_id=\"13281:

School closures by themselves - would it be useful?
Probably need to couple with stay at home advisories - otherwise large groups of kids, instead of being in school where some social distancing can be enforced - they are milling around in fast food outlets or malls or public libraries etc - i don't think it will help much in containing spread.

Agree. Young kids are easily restless too. They need constructive things to occupy their time with.

[zac's mum]

I still see moderate numbers of secondary school students going back to school during these March holidays.


MOH has said that they won’t order school closures unless they start seeing evidence of the school-going age group being at higher risk, or of them being super-spreaders to vulnerable family members.

In any case, we can expect plenty of kids whose parents have happily taken them on overseas holiday cos unwilling to cancel or whatever, waiting out their compulsory 14-day SHN, which will last till 1-2 weeks after Term 2 starts. I’d expect many classrooms to be less than full when Term 2 reopens.

That should buy us a bit more time, flatten the curve a little bit.

[lee_yl]

doodbug\" post_id=\"1967639\" time=\"1584580265\" user_id=\"13281:

School closures by themselves - would it be useful?
Probably need to couple with stay at home advisories - otherwise large groups of kids, instead of being in school where some social distancing can be enforced - they are milling around in fast food outlets or malls or public libraries etc - i don't think it will help much in containing spread.

All shopping malls shut down for 2 weeks except for supermarkets and pharmacies. Maybe we can’t imagine that happening but this is what is happening in many countries right now.

Friend told me, those undergrad returning from overseas, many of them have siblings in local schools! One school teacher I knew, flew overseas during March Hol, I am not sure whether she returned before or after the SHN dateline kicked in.


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