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Singapore's health-care system: key features, challenges, and shifts.

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2021
Since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, the development of its health-care system has been underpinned by an emphasis on personal responsibility for health, and active government intervention to ensure access and affordability through ...
C. Tan   +4 more
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Epidemiologic Features and Clinical Course of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore.

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
Importance Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has spread globally with sustained human-to-human transmission outside China.
B. Young   +26 more
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Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Workers in Singapore

open access: yesAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2020
Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Workers in Singapore Background: In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Singapore raised its Disease Outbreak Response System Condition alert to “orange,” the second ...
B. Tan   +23 more
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Presymptomatic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 — Singapore, January 23–March 16, 2020

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Presymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), might pose challenges for disease control. The first case of COVID-19 in Singapore was detected on January 23, 2020, and by March 16, a total of 243 ...
W. Wei   +5 more
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Interventions to mitigate early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore: a modelling study

open access: yesLancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2020
Background Since the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec 31, 2019, 68 imported cases and 175 locally acquired infections have been reported in Singapore.
J. Koo   +7 more
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Investigation of three clusters of COVID-19 in Singapore: implications for surveillance and response measures

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2020
Background Three clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) linked to a tour group from China, a company conference, and a church were identified in Singapore in February, 2020.
R. Pung   +67 more
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Interrupting transmission of COVID-19: lessons from containment efforts in Singapore

open access: yesJournal of Travel Medicine, 2020
Highlight Despite multiple importations resulting in local chains of transmission, Singapore has been able to control the COVID-19 outbreak without major disruption to daily living.
V. Lee, Calvin J. Chiew, W. Khong
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Leveraging Twitter data to understand public sentiment for the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore

open access: yesInt. J. Inf. Manag. Data Insights, 2021
Microblogging has become one of the most useful tools for sharing everyday life events and news and for expressing opinions about those events. As Twitter posts are short and constantly being generated, they are a great source for providing public ...
Khairiyah Mohamed Ridhwan, C. Hargreaves
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