Singapore Deemphasizes Cases in Shift Away From Covid-Zero Plan
- Daily reports to focus more on trends and not individual cases
- Nearly 60% of the population has taken first dose of vaccine
Health workers outside a mandatory Covid-19 test site set up at a public housing estate in the Redhill area of Singapore on June 21.
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Singapore is changing the way it reports on progress against Covid-19, focusing on key trends and the number of severe virus cases while dropping detailed information about individual infections, the Ministry of Health said.
The change comes “as we move to a new phase of battling the pandemic, with a strong focus on preventing the virus from spreading, vaccinating our population and starting the process to transit to a new normal,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement late Tuesday.