Building up community trust - such as among neighbours and with migrant workers - is crucial in a crisis like Covid-19, said panellists during a virtual forum yesterday.
Reflecting on his experience, executive director of the Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) Bernard Menon said trust and unity, as well as faith in Singapore's public institutions, underpinned the community response to help migrant workers in lockdown last year.
"The fact that our NGOs and people had this amazing ability to overlook where we disagree and stand together - I think that struck me through the whole experience as the, if I may use a bit of a cliche, secret weapon that we had," he said.