Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Government Singapore are preparing guidelines for long-term survival and the increased likelihood of death from infection Covid-19.
This was done after Singapore plans to reactivate the country’s economic sector.
Singapore is reported to be re-opening business activities and making guidelines for living with the corona virus as a reference for activities as well as other common diseases, such as influenza.
Singapore’s Minister of Health, Ong Ye Kung, said that when the economic sector was revived this month, Singaporeans had to be ready with the plan.
“Psychologically prepared that the number of deaths from Covid-19 may also rise,” Ye Kung said, as quoted by Reuters on Tuesday (17/8).
That pragmatic approach could serve as an example for other countries looking to get out of lockdown as they ramp up vaccination programmes. However, health experts say Singaporeans are likely to be faced with hundreds of deaths each year from the endemic Covid-19, similar to the flu
“The only way that there are no deaths from the disease anywhere in the world is to eliminate the disease entirely, and that’s only done for smallpox,” said Paul Tambyah, president of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
According to the calculations of doctors in Singapore, the country has only reported 44 deaths from Covid infections since January 2020. This is far less than the 800 deaths from the flu.
“While the idea of hundreds of deaths from Covid seems staggering compared to the deaths so far and deserves prevention efforts, it is the equivalent of influenza that society has almost ignored,” said National University of Singapore (NUS) infectious disease modeling expert Alex Cook.
Alex said as many as a thousand people in Singapore are expected to die in the next year or two if vaccinations among the elderly do not improve.
Singapore Compile a Living-Dead Guide with Covid-19
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