Many of the governments once lauded for their textbook Covid-19 responses, replete with strict lockdowns, sophisticated contact-tracing apps and clearly articulated policies, got tripped up by something in the end.
In Singapore, it was an outbreak in foreign worker dorms. In South Korea, it was the premature reopening of nightclubs.
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