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What the US Can Learn From Singaporean Universities' COVID Response

Tan Eng Chyestated to
The New York Times.
Aggressive Testing to Save the Day
Testing for the coronavirus is critical for tracking its spread and determining when isolation and containment measures should be put into place.
However, it hasn’t been easy for students and faculty to get tested on certain US university campuses. For example, saliva-testing at the University of South Carolina is entirely voluntary and had to be stopped entirely in September after a staff member who administered the tests became ill. The university had already reported over 1,000 cases by then.
In comparison to such lackadaisical measures in the US, universities in Singapore adopted aggressive testing measures to nip the virus in the bud. NUS, which had resorted to online lectures for a brief period, was quick to resume campus operations. By fall, the university was implementing strong social distancing measures by assigning students to different zones on campus while imposing to ....

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How Singapore has kept the coronavirus off campus

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Following the government’s lead, universities in Singapore, a semi-authoritarian city-state of almost 6 million people, have taken a top-down approach to managing the coronavirus. The result: Since the start of the pandemic last year, not one person has been found to have contracted the virus at any of Singapore’s three major universities
Every day, Tan Eng Chye, president of the National University of Singapore, scans his online dashboard to see how crowded the cafeterias are.
If the real-time map shows that one cafeteria is too packed, he has administrators send out an advisory to avoid it and to remind students that there are campus-run food delivery services, free of charge. ....

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