Singapore's strategy can help preserve healthcare capacity: Gan

Singapore

SINGAPORE'S strategy to flatten the curve when it comes to controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus may stretch the pandemic over a longer period of time, but it would help to preserve the country's healthcare capacity to care for more severe cases, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said.

Delivering a ministerial statement in Parliament on Wednesday, Mr Gan, who also co-chairs a multi-ministry task force set up to deal with the coronavirus, said academics have established two possible scenarios: one that has a sharp peak, and the other with a long tail.