Commentary: Worries over COVID-19 situation are taking a mental toll on Singapore

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Urgent attention must be paid to the impact of this raging pandemic on our mental health, former NMP and mental health advocate Anthea Ong urges.

SINGAPORE: “It feels like deja vu,” a young community worker said, a day after the tightened measures for Phase 2 came into effect.

After all, during the circuit breaker last year, the Samaritans of Singapore received over 10,000 calls in distress, a 36 per cent increase. The Ministry of Social & Family Development also recently launched a 24-hour National Anti-Violence Helpline for the public to report cases of family violence, abuse and neglect.

While we are better prepared for a second circuit breaker, we carry more baggage picked up from a year of economic uncertainty, pandemic fatigue and the emotional roller-coaster of on-off restriction measures. Updates given by the COVID-19 Multi-Ministry Taskforce have rightly been focused on the number and breakdown of infections, the ensuing control measures and economic relief support for those affected.

 

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For some people. The rest of us are doing just fine...really...almost...really.

When is the government going to bring in the Sinopharm vaccines approved by WHO

All the data can be found here.

Not surprising when patients are treated like criminals, citizens snitch on each other and the media reports it as Armageddon 🙄

COVID19 cases reported visiting malls, eateries and other places while infectious. With trace together identified their movements and zero in to investigate resulting in more cases. Could not the movement by cases during infectious period be stopped to prevent further cases.

睡不着觉

That’s happening at every corner of the world affected by the Pandemic. Stop whining.

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