Even as Singapore draws precious lessons from the COVID-19 experience, as we did with SARS 20 years ago, it’s important to recognise that pandemics are complex, evolving situations fraught with uncertainty, says Duke-NUS’ Khoo Yoong Khean.
, released on Mar 8 and to be debated next week in Parliament.
An example highlighted in the White Paper on what could have been done better in Singapore was the management of the outbreak in migrant worker dormitories. As the understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 was limited in early 2020, the authorities implemented similar procedures on containment using protocols following the SARS outbreak in 2003.
In 2020, when the world was thick in the tempest of COVID-19, the scientific community was in a race against time to develop a vaccine. Singapore made a decision to secure advanced purchasing of the first mRNA vaccines, at a time when mRNA technology for vaccines was still new to real-world settings.
The pandemic has exposed flaws in the global health system and the barriers countries must overcome to work together effectively. But as crises wane, interest in global health, and especially funding, will dwindle across the world.
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