Today is the beginning of the "Circuit Breaker" which the Singapore government has implemented in Singapore where most offices are shut and tomorrow, all schools will be closed. This will be so till 4th May. This is an attempt at a soft lockdown in Singapore so as to arrest the speed of infection of Covid-19.
Everyone from EAST is working from home for a month, but not just EAST, almost everyone in non-essential services in Singapore. This is an unprecedented move by the government but these are unprecedented times in Singapore and around the world. The headlines in world news this morning is the admission of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to an Intensive Care Unit after more than 10 days of being infected with Covid-19. His symptoms has since worsened which is most unfortunate, as he had previously believed in "herd immunity" for his nation.
Even Donald Trump, the USA President who had in the initial days called Covid-19 a hoax and compared it to a common flu is now facing the realities of the pandemic in his country which has a death toll of over 10,000 in just over two months or so. USA has the widest number of infections in the world now. While China, being the first country that had to deal with the infections is now mostly out of the woods with relatively few cases of infections and very low death rate now. What a topsy-turvy world we live in.
