Strategy of living with Covid-19 raises concern


Back to normal: People dining out at Boat Quay in Singapore. — Reuters

Living through the coronavirus pandemic in Singapore, Joys Tan followed the rules that helped the city-state keep its cases low: keeping her distance from others, wearing a mask and getting herself vaccinated.

Nobody in her family had contracted the virus, and it was with confidence that she had dinner at her godmother’s house earlier this month, even with infections rising rapidly, fuelled by the Delta variant, as the government pushed ahead with a strategy of “living with Covid” as an endemic disease with a gradual relaxation of restrictions.

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