SINGAPORE - The Republic swung into full circuit breaker mode on Wednesday (April 8), with schools closing their doors as students move to home-based learning a day after most workplaces in Singapore were shuttered.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The Republic swung into full circuit breaker mode on Wednesday , with schools closing their doors as students move to home-based learning a day after most workplaces in Singapore were shuttered.R0 refers to the basic reproduction number of a disease. It provides healthcare officials with a gauge for the average number of people who will catch the disease from a single infected person.
But Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said data suggests that Singapore's cumulative measures to contain the outbreak have been successful in driving down R0 for the disease to be at or below one since the start of the outbreak in January.
If R0 had been as high as two to three here, as it was in many of the worst-hit places, then Singapore would have had substantially more than the 1,481 cases it had as of April 7, said Prof Cook. BREAKING THE TRANSMISSION CHAIN Tackling the outbreak of an infectious disease - especially one caused by a virus that no one has seen before - is a challenging task requiring all hands on deck.
R0 can be reduced by social actions, such as implementing social distancing measures, and by early isolation of cases through intensive contact tracing.HOW TO GAUGE SUCCESS Prof Cook said the enhanced social distancing measures would be deemed successful if the number of daily cases fall to the single digit zone by May 4, when the circuit breaker phase ends.
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