Coronavirus: Experts warn repeated circuit breakers may be needed until vaccine is developed
SINGAPORE - While Singapore is making strenuous efforts to contain Covid-19, a realistic long-term strategy could entail imposing a circuit breaker every few months until a vaccine is developed, said experts.
What is more worrying is that clusters have formed in foreign worker dormitories, he said, explaining that this is why the Government has designated a few as isolation areas and sent dedicated clinical teams to treat the infected workers, while moving healthy ones to separate locations with lower human density.
Different standards of governance and the lack of global coordination also make it difficult to predict when the pandemic will end, he said. The panellists acknowledged that a stop-and-start strategy of repeated circuit breakers could pose economic challenges. Compounding this is the psychological fatigue that sets in when people are forced to endure a lengthy lockdown, said Associate Professor Joanne Yoong, senior economist and director of the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California.
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