China’s ‘zero Covid’ vs Singapore’s ‘living with it’: rapid low-cost testing could mean we don’t need to choose

Singapore’s vaccination rate is one of the highest in the world, above 80 per cent. Encouraged by this, the city state has tried to reopen and renormalise. However, the recent rise in Covid-19 cases has grown faster than expected, hospitals began feeling the impact, restrictions have been reintroduced, and mobility remains well below pre-pandemic levels.Here and elsewhere, there is a vigorous debate between two groups on how to “exit” from the pandemic.On one side are the “eliminationists”…

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