Singapore, like Australia, has been one of the strictest nations with pandemic restrictions with the six million people of the lion city largely unable to leave their island nation since March 2020 at all. This has taken a heavy toll on their way of living and their normally thriving global aviation and trading hub – […]
When the Singapore government announced strict segregation measures in August for those who were not yet vaccinated against Covid-19, it had an immediate desired effect. Vaccination numbers surged, from 70 per cent who had completed the two-shot regimen as of Aug 8, to 78 per cent just two weeks later. Restaurants reopened to in-person dining on Aug 10 for those.
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Mask mandates in England will end on July 19.
By Tara John and Nectar Gan, CNN
More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s rich nations are beginning to accept that Covid-19 is not going away despite high vaccination rates drastically cutting the number of hospitalizations and deaths.
But while they may agree that the virus is here to stay, in some form, for the foreseeable future, these countries have radically different approaches to dealing with it.
Singapore, an island state of 5.69 million, and the UK, home to an estimated 66 million people, have had very different pandemic experiences and outcomes so far.
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