Singapore Defends Selective Testing, Says It Yielded Results
- City-state has made no major decision to pivot to mass testing
- Foreign worker infections push total cases close to 22,000
A security guard prepares to test for coronavirus in Singapore.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
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Singapore remains committed to its approach to selectively test individuals with symptoms of the coronavirus as it has yielded results, and hasn’t made any major decisions to pivot to mass testing.
“We cannot be testing aimlessly,” the city-state’s health minister Gan Kim Yong said at a press conference on Friday.