Singapore’s SARS playbook and getting ahead of COVID-19

The World

Up until last week, Singapore had the highest number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus outside of China. When COVID-19 first emerged, the country took some of the most aggressive measures to contain the spread without putting entire communities on lockdown. Dr. Leong Hoe Nam, a leading infectious disease doctor in Singapore who also contracted SARS in 2003, spoke with host Marco Werman about the country’s novel approach to containing COVID-19.

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