Singapore has been lauded as a 'gold standard' of COVID-19 mitigation, thanks to contact tracing and widespread testing. But there's a cost.
Singapore has been lauded as a"gold standard" of COVID-19 mitigation, thanks to contact tracing and widespread testing. But there's a cost.SINGAPORE — At around 4 p.m. on March 26, a Thursday, I got a text message from the yoga studio where I moonlight as a part-time instructor. A student who’d been in one of my classes a week earlier had tested positive for the coronavirus. Be prepared to be quarantined, the studio boss warned me.He wasn’t kidding.
I got home around 9 p.m. — five hours after I’d first learned of potential exposure to the coronavirus. Within 36 hours, I got my test results in a text message: Negative.An ambulance arrived outside my home less than two hours after I'd first learned of my possible exposure to the coronavirus.
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