It has been a wild ride since we last wrote about the Coronavirus in February – so much has happened since then.
As of now, the spread of COVID-19 has worsened to a state that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic on March 11. If you haven’t already grasped how serious the issue is at hand – in 2003 SARS wasn’t even considered significant enough to reach pandemic status.
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At the time of writing, it has already claimed more than 24,000 lives and over 500,000 cases worldwide.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone directly, with a third of the world now under lockdown – that’s nearly 3 billion people. Even if you were old enough to remember the SARS period, the measures then were nowhere close to the same as now – it is quite the unprecedented situation.
In Singapore itself, there have been...