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On 3 April 2020, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a nationwide partial lockdown, known as a circuit breaker, to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Singapore. These measures came after an increase of unlinked cases over the preceding month, as well as the risk of a huge cluster of infections.
4 June: According to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, more than 408,000 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Singapore as of 1 June 2020. [279] 9 June: It was announced that if Singapore residents kept to their terms of the China fast lane agreement, they would not need to pay coronavirus-related medical bills at Singapore public hospitals. [280]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The first case in Singapore was confirmed on 23 January 2020. Early cases were primarily imported until local transmission began to develop in February and March.
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore may refer to: Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (2021) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (2022) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (2023)
On 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern raised New Zealand's COVID-19 alert level [254] to three and announced the closure of all schools beginning on that day, and two days later moved to four at 11:59 p.m. on 25 March 2020 – a nationwide lockdown. While all sporting matches and events as well as non-essential services such as pools ...
27 March – CP: Singapore invokes the Infectious Diseases (COVID-19) movement control law, banning entertainment outlets, nightclubs and tuition centres, and restricting remaining building crowd density such as MRT and LRT stations, and shopping centres to one person per 16 square metres of space, failing which they will be asked to close.
Bhattacharya is co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 manifesto in which he and other health professionals made the case against lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. Number of cases (blue) and number of deaths (red) on a logarithmic scale. The Ministry of Health of Singapore has been publishing official numbers on a daily basis since the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 virus on 23 January 2020.