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SINGAPORE'S RESPONSE TO COVID-19

During the early days of COVID-19 Singapore, a small city-island located in the middle of the Malay peninsula, was praised internationally for its handling of the Coronavirus. The country has since then slipped out of that and is struggling to stop the rise in cases, this was because of how late the country went into Lockdown and the  overcrowding of migrant workers in bad conditions which account for over 90% of the total cases. on April 7th Singapore started their lockdown, this it only boosted the amount of cases from around 40 per day to 700 everyday from April 7th to may 1st and it only got worse until late June, that was when they went out of lockdown and things started opening back up and workers could finally come out of their cramped environments and breathe which reduced the cases from 600 (as it was already reducing) to just over 100 per day. During all of the quarantine, Singapore sent out 5 stimulus care packages amounting to almost 100 Billion SGD (70BN USD) which is about 1/4 of its GDP, because of this Singapore's economy has been able to rebound quicker than most Asian countries.