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Paragraph377
Singapore has announced that they are going to stop counting COVID cases and they are going to start treating COVID as if it was a seasonal flu.
Actually, Singapore hasn't done that at all. There seems to be some confusion between an
opinion piece published in The Strait Times two weeks ago and Government policy. Two markedly different things.
The opinion piece, authored by co-chairs of Singapore's Covid-19 multi-ministry task force - Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and Health Minister Ong Ye Kung - is not much more than some
thinking on how COVID-19
might be managed. It's yet another political "road map" to better times that lacks specificity. The penultimate paragraphs wrap it up:
We are drawing up a road map to transit to this new normal, in tandem with the achievement of our vaccination milestones, though we know the battle against Covid-19 will continue to be fraught with uncertainty.
In the meantime, we still need to take the necessary precautions and safeguards, to keep infections and hospitalisations at bay.