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muriel_volestrangler

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4. Singapore's said to have done quite well, though it probably has advantages
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 05:01 PM
Mar 2020
In the global race to stop the new coronavirus outbreak, Singapore has been hailed by the World Health Organization as an exemplar of effective detection and containment.

For other countries, however, the answer to the epidemic may not be as simple as "do as the Singaporeans do."

The city-state accounted for 130 out of the roughly 100,000 infections reported worldwide as of Friday. Eighty-two of the patients had already been discharged, with not a single death. Local health authorities' carefully calibrated measures to control the outbreak are backed by some built-in advantages: a small territory, high medical standards, and the ability to impose somewhat draconian measures that might not fly elsewhere.

Late last month, the government revoked a 45-year-old man's permanent residency status because he had defied a "stay home" order.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/What-Singapore-s-coronavirus-tactics-can-and-can-t-teach-world

As for panic buying, the things about toilet paper is it doesn't go off. As the other items that are running out don't:

Shoppers are limited to buying no more than five of certain goods, including antibacterial gels, wipes and sprays, dry pasta, UHT milk and some tinned vegetables

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51790375

I went shopping today; they had indeed run out of dry pasta, and the own-brand tinned tomatoes.
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