LE FIGARO.- Just two months after the arrival of the first patient carrying the coronavirus, the Singapore authorities have managed to contain its dissemination. How did they do it?
Annelies WILDER-SMITH.- Singapore, like Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, has been deeply marked by the trauma of sras. As soon as the first cases of Covid-19 arrived, they mobilized their immense reserve of masks and activated the action plan developed after the 2003 epidemic. Their strategy of "containment at the source" consists in seeking actively test all suspect patients, test them systematically and strictly isolate hospital confirmed cases in negative pressure rooms until two consecutive tests turn negative.
At the same time, the authorities have taken significant steps to identify all the people with whom these carriers have been in contact. All are forced to remain in their homes for 14 days, and the authorities are
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