Coronavirus: How S'pore's circuit breaker compares with other countries' lockdowns

Call it a movement control order, curfew or a lockdown. Around the world, governments have imposed increasingly stringent social distancing measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus as it continues its global rampage.

The circuit breaker measures - set to last until at least May 4 - include a ban on dining out and instructions to limit social contact to members of the same household. To press home the point, the Government passed a new law last week, temporarily banning all social gatherings, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warning that it would be strictly enforced. Penalties for first-time offenders involve fines of up to $10,000 and six months' jail.

In Indonesia, the country's partial lockdown reflects competing priorities between its central and local governments that have hampered a unified progressive approach. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been resisting a nationwide lockdown even as some regional leaders try to restrict movement within their provincial borders.

To be sure, Indonesia's sheer size - with its 34 provinces and more than 270 million people - makes it a tough country to govern and a potential hot bed for bureaucracy. A study published in the international journal Science last month attributed a delay in the spread of the virus to China's decision to lock down the city."Our analysis suggests that without the Wuhan travel ban and the national emergency response, there would have been more than 700,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases outside of Wuhan by ," Oxford fellow Christopher Dye, one of the paper's authors, told Agence France-Presse. There were 30,000 cases in China on that date.

While governments, doctors and researchers around the world have been comparing individual nations' approaches to the coronavirus crisis, hoping to learn from each one's successes and avoid any missteps, what has worked for some countries may not work for others. An approach tailored to each nation's unique circumstances may yield better results.

South Korea, too, managed to beat back an initial outbreak without a total lockdown or even the kind of draconian restrictions seen elsewhere, focusing containment efforts on rapid testing and contact tracing instead. Most of its distancing measures were mere guidelines rather than mandatory, though schools were ordered shut and social gatherings banned, with tough penalties imposed on violators.

4 may seemed so far away

Must ask why others can afford a lockdown, but here is only CB.

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