Thursday 16 June 2022

Monitoring the pandemic | 1,000 cases a day. So?

Singapore has 2-3,000 a day yet no news of it in The Straits Times. The news there is news. Whereas here we front-page it, under the label “coronavirus crisis”, then wonder why people are in fear. 

Pandemic adviser, David Hui, says we ought focus on hospitalisation and deaths rather than raw case numbers. He’s right. It’s been so for well over a year. But his government and this newspaper take no notice.