No ‘Big Bang’ Virus Reopening as Singapore Seeks Middle Path
- ‘So much uncertainty’ when places like U.K, U.S open up: Ong
- Herd immunity in country may not be possible with variants
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Singapore will not take the same approach as the U.K. and U.S. for mass reopening, but neither will it keep the sort of restrictive outlook that China and Australia have adopted. Instead, it will chart its own step-by-step approach, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said.
“What we want is to take a more middle path. Get ourselves vaccinated, that’s critical, maintain both containment and mitigation measures,” Ong said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin. The country would “open up progressively, package by package, nothing big bang, and each step of the way, make sure we keep the population safe,” he said.