It's easy to be lulled into a false sense of security by the mostly-zero daily new Covid-19 infections in the larger community these days, but roughly a year ago, the situation, if you recall, was vastly different.
And as the groundswell of infections spreading rapidly at Singapore's densely-packed foreign worker dormitories was just beginning to emerge, insiders in our healthcare sector who were informed of the unfolding crisis were gravely concerned.
One of these was Dr Loo Choon Yong, co-founder and executive chairman of Raffles Medical, Singapore's largest homegrown private healthcare group.
Invited to meet Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean