The Ministry of Health is reviewing the Infectious Diseases Act and aims to table amendments to it in the second half of this year.
SINGAPORE: Control orders to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were extended for a year for the final time on Monday , allowing the authorities to react quickly to new and dangerous variants if they emerge.
Last month, the nation stepped down its disease alert to the lowest level since the pandemic started andfor COVID-19 community measures - namely, the wearing of face masks on public transport as well as in indoor healthcare and residential care settings. He noted that the health ministry is continuing to monitor the COVID-19 situation and the evolution of the virus through its international networks and local surveillance, in order to pick up early signals of new variants that could be more transmissible or cause more severe disease.
“This extension will continue to allow targeted public health measures to be implemented for the purposes of preventing and controlling the spread of COVID-19, so that we can react swiftly to new and dangerous COVID-19 variants should they emerge.”
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